Covering Coronavirus: Athens, Ohio

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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As schools close to help stem the spread of COVID-19, what happens to kids who rely on school meals to eat? FRONTLINE producer Jezza Neumann reports from Athens, Ohio — where school buses are now delivering meals to students in need. And, as Jezza discovered, some teachers are personally taking meals to those in areas too remote for buses to reach. “Everybody just wants these kids to be fed,” Jezza says. But he’s finding that with each passing week, the coronavirus heightens food scarcity — and the children he speaks with are acutely aware of the risk of hunger that lies before them.

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0:00.0	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation,
0:03.5	committed to excellence in journalism,
0:05.7	and by the Frontline Journalism Fund,
0:07.9	with major support from John and Joanne Hagueller.
0:10.9	Support for Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center,
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0:26.4	I really, I really enjoy doing this.
0:32.0	I enjoy being here at work. I enjoy feeling like I am.
0:36.8	I'm helping people through this coronavirus.
0:40.4	People are hungry. People have to be fed.
0:43.0	It's, it's a necessity.
0:44.8	This is the Frontline Dispatch.
0:46.7	I'm Rainy Ernst, an executive producer of Frontline.
0:50.0	Covering coronavirus is a special series of conversations with our journalists in the field.
0:55.3	They're reporting on this pandemic and how it's affecting lives across the world, moment to moment.
1:01.5	There's so many people that are now falling into this world,
1:04.5	who for the first time will it be experiencing this food insecurity as they've lost their jobs and as cities shut down.
1:11.6	That's reporter and filmmaker Jeza Newman.
1:14.3	He had been working on a documentary for us about the lives of poor children
1:18.0	in battleground states leading up to the presidential election.
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