Despite some restaurants reopening to customers, some states like New Jersey and California are seeing an increase of COVID-19 infections and deaths.
Federal stay-at-home guidelines will expire on Thursday night as 35 states begin loosening social distancing restrictions. There is still a divide in this country about whether we are moving too quickly — or not fast enough — to reopen.
Some restaurants are beginning to serve customers again. In other states, including New Jersey and California, there are increases in coronavirus infections and deaths.
For most of the day, California was bracing for the worst. After reports Governor Gavin Newsom would close all beaches statewide, he announced Thursday that the closures are targeted only in Orange County where there’s the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the state and the sight of crowded beaches rang alarms.
« My job as governor is to keep you safe, » Newsom said. « And when our health folks tell me they can’t promise that if we promote another weekend like we had, then I have to make this adjustment.
