medicalion is, i do transport in toledo, ohio.ostly taking patients for kidney dialysis, hospitals, methadone clinics. priora financial hardship to coronavirus. i have to work. i am asking, what can i do to protect myself and what can other people do that have to work? host: thank you for that. i assume you are hearing that in seattle or have heard it over the last three or four weeks? guest: absolutely. the situation is different in every area so i don't know what is happening in ohio, but number one is the transport people will be some of the first to see the patients not yet diagnosed. it is important to know what those symptoms are and to be able to get civil -- get sufficient personal protective equipment, masks, gloves, gowns if needed, so you don't expose yourself. it is a heroic action every day of our firefighters, ambulance drivers, and frontline health care workers. if we don't protect them, we will not make it through this. my heart is out to you. make sure you know what the regulations are in ohio and how for the ppe

that helps in michigan, in toledo, ohio. some of the moves he made in his first term ended up helping him get reelected. but he did not have coattails. hillary clinton was his secretary of state, but she did not have the gas in her tank because of the fatigue factor. by about six to seven years, people start tiring of a president, for sure. even ronald reagan with all of his great breakthroughs with gorbachev and diplomacy started trailing off. people had their reagan quota. brian: do we have cards? do you know where they are? we want to make sure you have a chance to ask questions. you can fill out some questions on these cards if you have them, pass them down the row. let me go to people that are here in the audience and also watching at home. maybe some young people. what would you advise them to do if they get interested in history? i know it sounds simple, but we at c-span, we would not be doing history if it was not for these terrific historians. 44 of them in this book. and over the years, all of the interviews they h

in toledo, ohio. caller: yes, hi. to address the small businesses that do not have a location outside of their home in ohio and i also have a daughter in new mexico. they are not really able to get through the small business stimulus loans package because they don't have people on staff that can help them with that. if the unemployment would get in place, they would be able to make it through this because they don't need to pay a lease or anything like that. current ohio site says they are waiting for guidelines and trying to build a program so there is no way they can even apply yet. we are talking about this as we learned this morning that additional 4.4 million workers last week filed for unemployment claims bringing the total number to over 26 million. susan in new york sends us a text saying the stimulus bill failed to support state and local governments. the one the house is going on today. mitch mcconnell is saying it is the -- unlikely to happen in future bills. do you know how many jobs we lost when states ca

lee in toledo, ohio, and essential worker. what do you do?elf-employed policy writer for a health company. host: good morning. so you are working from home to do your work? caller: i have to go into the facility and work. , i cannot work from home because of some policies i have to draft with the state of ohio for this organization to be recertified. host: what is it like when you go in? caller: a little nervous. more nervous for me than -- more nervous for my wife than me, because she is a nurse. is an assistant at home for dementia. we have to make sure we do not contaminate anybody in the house. i have an ailing father right now who needs a heart catheter, so we have to be very careful who comes in and are they washing their hands and everything. so it is very nervous having to come back and taking care of my father. before i go on any further, i have to say last time i talked to you in 2015, i was teaching college, and we had a debate over candidate trump at the time. i've been waiting to tell you that, that part and everything else that

toledo. he will tell you a little about the frontlines. he joined his father's practice and his mom was a federal judge here in ohio. but most recently he is the president of osma, the ohio state medical association, which works closely with the ama./ we asked him to talk about what he is seeing on the front lines in terms of something that is something we all worry about, which are the social determinants of how some racial disparities and making sure that we are not leaving anyone behind. that we dr. armstrong, have had disparities in health way before we ever faced covid-19 and coronavirus. but we are now learning that the fatality rate is disproportionate in the african-american and latino communities.

ohio. it will take a little bit of time, but it seems to be working. dr. acton: so i think you are working in toledo. some people are wondering about how they best access health care. what messages would you give to folks about getting access to care, and what are you seeing on the ground in toledo? dr. armstrong: a couple things. the first thing is about access. we are using a lot of telehealth. and specifically using a smartphone or an ipad, having visual audio visits. if you do not have an established physician, most practices are taking on new patients. and if you do not have a smartphone or an ipad, you can also use a laptop. you can do what we call e-visits, where you can message your doctor and say these are the symptoms i am having, and the doctor messages back with instructions of what you should do. the other thing is a lot of people still have the old flip phones, especially the elderly. we still do telephone calls. there's a process they go through where they will screen whatever your symptoms are, what they have to do. timecton: so this is a when we know our social safety net is struggl

ohio, we are income-taxed based. we've furloughed 470 of our 1,900 workers. cities like cincinnati, akron and toledoe done the same as well. >> is it just a matter of getting you funds from the federal government or there has to be some kind of structural change to address this problem going forward? do you want to see a one-time relief payment or is there something more specific you need? >> we need simple revenue replacement from the loss of the economic slowing of covid. much like the congress is doing around paycheck protection. the difference is, we actually have these frontline workers that are essential as well. and so when you're in the middle of a pandemic, you need police service, you need fire service, you need trash pickup. and sadly, to make these decisions and cuts during this time and even after we get to the other side of this, we'll affect the recovery. local governments are about 10% of the workforce. you don't want these local communities not to have these services and you don't want them to be a drag on the economy for the recovery. >> have you spoken to members of your congressi

ohio. if you have one standard in surrounding counties, another where toledo is, you are going to have people from one county going to the next county. i will turn to dr. acton to address this. that is the opposite of what we want to see happen. then you are starting to mix populations and you cannot isolate the coronavirus, the entire concept the high testing. this has been a very good question that we have discussed amongst my peers. you will see this discussion rising. i think it's a matter of timing. we can see we are so interrelated, and outbreak anywhere affects someone else. we have to look at this globally. when you think about travel, as we move forward, that will be an issue. we need certain things to be national. then we are going to have to look at it as states. know now, we don't really exactly how many cases we have or what is going on at the local level but we will try hard to study it. i think there is a time in the future where there will be more regional approaches, but we are just not there yet. it is really, too, important that we remember -- i want it to be clear that hea

one of the most interesting things was jimmy breslin wrote "the roaring 20's were born in toledo ohiouly 4, 1919 at this fight." the people that came to this fight -- the list is incredible. toledo at the time was really centrally located within the railroad system. it was easy for people to get here and plenty of hotels, and 80,000 seat arena, it was the perfect venue for the biggest fight of the century. announcer: you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country as c-span.org/city tour. this is american history tv only on c-span3. announcer: sunday on reel america, fdr and world war ii. -- athousand a program 2008 program that focuses on fdr's involvement with wartime issues. here's a preview. ♪ we are now in this war. we are all in it, all the way. woman, ande man, child. the most tremendous undertaking of our american history. we must share together the bad news and the goodness, the defeats and victories, the changing of war. narrator: to fight a global war, the united states needed to mobilize the entire population. the government turned to