Most people don't get very sick or hardly get symptoms at all. I haven't really felt much from Covid despite having been exposed to it by my wife and kids. The first 'cold' my kids brought home from school had me down for 3 weeks. This new flu strain my wife and kids are currently battling doesn't seem to affect me at all.
What I'm saying is that everyone experiences infectious diseases differently and Covid seems to be extra variable in the effects it has on people. We all had the same vaccines, my wife barely got through it, our youngest kid took 2 weeks to recover, the other was better within in a week, I only felt some mild fatigue for a couple days... Not even sure if it was from Covid or simply from the stress of watching my wife go through Covid (again).
Anyway California does seem to be a bit better off in the states, #33 in cases per 1M (Maryland best), #41 in deaths per 1M (Vermont best)
(#1 being worst out of the 50 states plus one district, Rhode Island worst for cases per 1M, Mississippi worst for deaths per 1M)
Overall USA sits at #16 for deaths per 1M (out of 225 or so) Eastern Europe and Peru were hit the worst. UK sits at #26, Canada sits at #88.