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California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a vial of the new COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 14, 2020. Jae C. Hong/Pool/Getty Images
California has seen a surge in CCP virus cases despite imposing some of the strictest lockdown measures of any state in the United States.
The state became the first to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as nearly the entire state was under a strict stay-at-home order.