Questions about COVID 19 and federal aid for everything from COVID-19 tests to SBA (Small Business Administration) assistance loans to preparedness of rural hospital to COVID-19 affects to farmers, financial and health-wise were fielded by U.S. District 7 Congressman Collin Peterson during a telephone town hall Wednesday afternoon. 

Peterson, along with a representative from the SBA, Brian McDonald and the rural medical community Dr. Cindy Firikins Smith, Carris Health,  were on the line for around an hour devoted to answering questions from people across Minnesota. 

Many of the questions came from rural Minnesotans about how the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill will assist them.