https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/20/coronavirus-unemployment-bay-area-layoff-double-tech-real-estate-construction-retail-restaurant-hotel-movie-job-economy/

Layoffs being planned in the Bay Area have more than doubled over the last seven days, a forbidding new indicator of the economic fallout that’s being unleashed by the coronavirus amid government-imposed lockdowns throughout the region.

From March 15, the time when government agencies began to lock down the economy in California to combat the widening coronavirus, employers have warned state officials of plans to chop roughly 44,400 jobs in the Bay Area, this news organization’s review of public records stretching over a one-month period shows.