https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/03/17/covid-economy-bay-area-jobs-recovery-years-away-tech-hotel-restaurant/ > The Bay Area economy, which only a year ago was perhaps the hottest in the United States, has now produced a feeble job market that could be two years away from healing its COVID-inflicted ailments. > During a brutal two months in March and April of 2020, the Bay Area suffered a jobs catastrophe — yet has recovered fewer than one-third of the jobs that employers jettisoned due to government-ordered business shutdowns to battle the coronavirus.