If you count excess mortality then California has 60% more deaths than registered covid deaths, as can be seen here. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/0

If you count excess mortality then California has 60% more deaths than registered covid deaths, as can be seen here. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronaviru... If we take that into account then California actually has more deaths per capita than Sweden, and people are still dying in California so it will only get worse. So I agree their strategy was not all that good.