As much of the country awaited the results of the presidential election last week, Texas became the first state in the United States to exceed 1 million cases of COVID-19.

On Friday night, NBC News reported 1,000,589 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Lone Star State. The news came the same time the nation saw a record number of daily confirmed cases, nearly 126,000. The average number of new cases reported every day last week was nearly 100,000.