NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Newport Beach does not feel like it’s in the middle of a pandemic. Although some are following stay-at-home and social-distancing rules, thousands are at the beach without masks.
Despite the public health plea for Los Angeles County residents not to flock to open beaches in Ventura and the OC, “We don’t need you to go out and get infected in another county and then bring yourself, infected, back here to L.A.
County,” said L.A. County Department of Public Health Barbara Ferrer, some are doing it anyway. Lifeguards estimate 40,000 people on Newport Beach Friday, which is twice as many as Thursday.