No. They’re not.
Outright lie.
"COVID Positive Patients", that is CA hospital patients who test positive for COVID, is over double what it was last year. No surprise, since the current variants are so highly transmissible and the vaccines so ineffective. But how many of these patients are actually hospitalized FOR COVID? Who knows, but certainly not all of them and probably not the majority.
Another indicator, "COVID Positive ICU Patients" is less than HALF of what it was this time last year. Deaths are an even smaller fraction of what they were a year ago, at about 1/8th. So more people "positive", fewer people sick , and even fewer dying.