https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/01/18/covid-economy-bay-area-store-closing-hotel-fitness-layoffs-widen-jobs/ > A coronavirus surge and more government shutdowns of businesses have unleashed a fresh bout of Bay Area job cuts, affecting the hotel, fitness, and retail sectors and delivering new blows to the region’s battered workforce. > The ominous spate of new job cuts planned in the Bay Area could foreshadow a slump — or worse — in the region’s economy, which has been reeling for 10 months from an array of side effects unleashed by the coronavirus.