https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/14/coronavirus-california-becomes-first-state-with-600000-cases-of-covid-19/

If it feels like California just passed the half-a-million case milestone, or just overtook New York for the most cases of any state, well, both occurred in the past month. And yet, again, on Thursday, the Golden State earned another not-so-golden accolade: the first state with 600,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Counties around the state, continuing to account for a backlog of some 300,000 tests, reported another 8,230 new cases Thursday to push the state’s count to 602,672, according to data compiled by this news organization, 14 days after it crossed the 500,000-case mark.