Texas is the first U.S. state to hit 1 million coronavirus cases, nearly double that of New York.
NBC reports Texas confirmed 1,000,589 cases of Covid-19 on Friday night, eclipsing California for the highest number of cases. Texas passed California, which has 968,000 cases as of Friday, last month; California is the most populous state with 39 million residents, and Texas is second with 29 million.
