TOPSHOT - Stuart Malcolm (L), a doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, puts on a mask before speaking with homeless people about the coronavirus (COVID-19) in front of a boarded-up shop in the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco California on M LOS ANGELES - California’s Christmas Eve was marked by pleas to stay home for the holidays and a grim milestone as it was poised to become the first state to top 2 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus.Johns Hopkins University was expected to report Thursday that the state reached the mark, barely six weeks since hitting 1 million cases.California’s infection rate — in terms of number of cases per 100,000 people — is lower than the U.S.