The FRONTLINE Dispatch
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
FRONTLINE PBS, WGBH
Covering Coronavirus: Cincinnati, Ohio
19 minutes Posted Mar 27, 2020 at 2:06 pm.
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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.”