Is there any way you can get out of your house and have a little bit of fun, without running a huge risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus? Experts say yes — if you maintain the social distancing rules that everyone absorbed during the nationwide lockdown.
The beach also might be safe, if you can find a sparsely populated stretch of sand — but that might not be realistic, said Donald Schaffner, a professor with the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick, N.J. “If I were to go to the Jersey Shore, which is opening up this weekend, that would place me at higher risk depending upon how many people are there and whether they are socially distancing,” Schaffner said. To read the full story.