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California reports the United States' first case of the "double mutant" variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in India. The variant has been detected in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2021-04-4

Florida surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the third U.S. state to do so after California and Texas.
2021-03-20

California reports a record 764 deaths in the past 24 hours.
2021-01-22

Texas surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the second state to do so after California.
2021-01-14

California extends a regional stay-at-home order in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley due to rise of hospitalizations in the state.
2020-12-29

The number of patients that hospitalized for COVID-19 in California reaches a record high of 7,415.
2020-11-29

Governor Gavin Newsom announces that he has pulled an "emergency brake", which means that starting the following day, California will implement more closures and stricter restrictions, which will cover 41 counties containing 94% of the state's population.
2020-11-16

The "Grand Princess" cruise ship, with at least 21 people aboard who've tested positive for COVID-19, has docked at the Port of Oakland, California, to continue to the next step in the quarantining measures process. The ship was carrying more than 2,000 passengers, as well as 1,100 crew members. The Grand Princess had been idling about 10 miles offshore since Thursday (March 5). Disembarking American passengers are being put under mandatory 14-day quarantine at military bases in California, Texas or Georgia. Foreign passengers are being sent to their home countries for the completion of the quarantine.
2020-03-9

In California, San Francisco declares a public emergency. Santa Clara and San Diego counties have made similar declarations.
2020-02-26

Notable propositions are passed in several states including legal recreational marijuana in California, Massachusetts, and Nevada; medical marijuana in Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota; tougher firearms restrictions in California and Washington state; physician assisted suicide in Colorado, and the reimposition of capital punishment in Nebraska.
2016-11-9