Covering Coronavirus: Cincinnati, Ohio
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
To combat COVID-19, Ohio has a “stay at home” order — but what does that mean for families without homes? Filmmaker Ben C. Solomon reports from inside an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Cincinnati, where he finds that for families already battling poverty, the coronavirus’ toll deepens the struggle. “In just a matter of weeks, most of the opportunities these people had to move out of homelessness — to make money, to get an apartment — those opportunities are going away.”
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| 0:00.0 | The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, |
| 0:03.6 | committed to excellence in journalism, |
| 0:05.6 | and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hagler. |
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| 0:23.0 | Learn more at mass general.org slash cancer. |
| 0:27.0 | My name is Nayshia Bolden and I'm eight years old. |
| 0:35.0 | So Nisha, tell me where are you right now? |
| 0:38.0 | In the shelter. |
| 0:40.0 | How is it right now? What have you heard about the news? Like what's going in the news? It's the |
| 0:46.6 | coronavirus. My mama, I worry about it because she can't go to work because the coronavirus. |
| 0:56.2 | Yesterday she couldn't go to work and today she can. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the frontline dispatch. I'm Rainy Aronson, executive producer of Frontline. |
| 1:07.0 | Covering coronavirus is a special series of conversations with our journalists in the field. |
| 1:12.0 | They're reporting on this pandemic and how it's impacting lives across the world, moment to moment. |
| 1:17.5 | When you hear the orders from the governor, from the president to stay at home to shelter in place. |
| 1:25.0 | The reality for many of these people is they don't have a home. |
| 1:28.0 | That's reporter and filmmaker Ben C. Solomon. |
| 1:31.0 | He's in Ohio reporting on how the spread of coronavirus is affecting people experiencing |
| 1:36.3 | homelessness. A recent report estimated that in Ohio alone, it could cost more than $40 million to help shelter people who are |
| 1:44.3 | homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic and that's just for three months. |
| 1:48.8 | Ben's been spending time with the family navigating the situation. |
| 1:52.3 | They're the first to be hit navigating the situation. |
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