https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/12/11/while-most-bay-area-economies-floundered-in-the-first-year-of-the-pandemic-santa-clara-countys-soared/

When the pandemic shut down wide swaths of the country in March 2020, the economies of all Bay Area counties tanked — except for Santa Clara County’s.

Unlike counties such as San Francisco and Napa whose financial health suffered in large part because they lean heavily on tourism and service industries still feeling the lingering effects of shutdowns, Santa Clara County thrived, according to newly released federal data.