California's Covid response at this point has pretty much fundamentally failed

Covid cases per 1m people : Texas: 78,976 California: 82,007 Florida: 84,009

Deaths per 1m people: Texas: 1,214 California: 929 Florida: 1,290

While the deaths are starting to decline, a huge amount are in December in January. On Dec 1, the 7-day average was 118 deaths. It peaked at 532 on Jan 15th, and is now sitting at 478. (These numbers are all total deaths per day btw, not per capita). Florida is starting to decline from their 175 deaths per day peak, and Texas has a somewhat gradual increase still at 455 deaths per day, but their case count has been declining. So CA ultimately will end up not too different from the other 2 states.

This means that despite everything California has tried to do, we have effectively ended up at the same point as numerous other states that effectively chose to do nothing.

To add insult to injury, California has the lowest vaccine usage rate in the country at the time of this post.