Los Angeles Passes 2 Million Total Covid Cases Since Start Of Pandemic; Omicron Surge Continues

It’s official. Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles will have a true “home” team, as the Los Angeles Rams topped the stubborn San Francisco 49ers today 20-17, thanks to a field goal

The City of Los Angeles currently is in a “strong financial position” but is facing a “financial bind” and will need to make “tough choices” in the next budget, according to City Controller Ron Galperin.

The same attributes that helped the Omicron variant of Covid-19 drive a historic rise in cases and then hospitalizations earlier this month in Los Angeles now seem to be precipitating a nearly-as-rapid decline in those same numbers.

Jana Duggar has been joined by her mom Michelle and brothers Jason and James for a fun family trip to Los Angeles. The four flew into California to visit Jinger, who has been living outside the city for several years with her husband Jeremy Vuolo.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently spotted out and about, taking a spin on his hefty fat tire bike in the City of Angels. The "Terminator" star wore a blue t-shirt, black pants, white tennis shoes, a dark brown leather jacket and black aviators. The outing on Monday comes three days after the 74-year-old actor was involved in a four-car accident in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Rams tried hard to give away their divisional championship game today against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Chris Pratt is getting in some exercise.

Zachary Quinto is enjoying a night out!

CBS Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger was driving a GMC Yukon SUV when it collided with a red Prius. The actor and former California governor’s vehicle “rolled up onto the top of the Prius and continued to roll,” before hitting a Porsche Cayenne and another vehicle that were waiting at a stoplight.Paramedics responded and a woman driving the Prius was taken to the hospital.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was involved in a car accident in the Los Angeles area on Friday afternoon.The 74-year-old actor and former California Governor's SUV rolled up onto a Prius and continued to roll, per. According to the outlet, Schwarzenegger was not injured but one person was taken to a nearby hospital via ambulance.

Los Angeles reported 102 Covid-related deaths today, the highest total since last March. That’s still well below the 290 deaths recorded last January, but the trend line is not good.

On-location filming in Los Angeles set an all-time quarterly record in the fourth quarter of 2021, was double the annual output from 2020 and was up 3.2% from the pre-pandemic year of 2019, according to the latest report from FilmLA, the city and county film permit office. Even so, production is off to a slow start again in 2022 because of the ongoing Omicron surge.

In what may be the first sign of the beginning of the end of the Omicron surge in Los Angeles, the 7-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus has fallen dramatically in the past week. Test positivity is considered a better measure of the rate of spread than raw case counts because it is a percentage that is averaged over a week’s time.

An emotional ordeal. Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were victims of a home burglary earlier this month, Us Weekly confirms.