ansible using master sockets with a jump host

[Kathy L]

We are trying to use ansible to set up things through master sockets through a jump host to another host.  It works for the first host after the jump host, but succeeding hosts do ot work as the socket is not kept open (host1 -> jumphost -. host3).  The issue is discussed thoroughly at this link:  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63904

The culprit seems to be sshpass.  We've also tried using sshuttle, but it seems to die a lot.  Does anyone have an idea of how we could go about doing this using ansible?  The client insists we get to their hosts this way so not doing it this way is not an option.  Thanks.