It looks like the battle against coronavirus has put 1-in-7 Californians out of work.

A new federal count of initial unemployment claims shows 925,450 Californians seeking benefits in the week ended April 4. That’s down by 132,875 in seven days — but only because the previous week’s tally was revised upward by 179,598 to a record 1.06 million.

Various “stay at home” orders have decimated the economy, swamping state jobless benefit administrators with an unprecedented wave of claims. In the past three weeks, 2.17 million filings were made vs. a total of 2.11 million in the previous 52 weeks.

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California had 840,000 officially unemployed in February with a 4.3% jobless rate. If all the recent claimants are added to the jobless tally, my trusty spreadsheet says California’s unemployment rate will hit 15%. Statewide joblessness peaked at 12% in the Great Recession.