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b'Journalist, writer, editor Frances Stead Sellers returned to share new insights. Leaders like Henrietta Fore, UNICEF, struggle with\\xa0\\u201cincredible added burdens\\u201d\\xa0dealing with crises in childhood education and disrupted immunizations while \\u201cvaccinating the world\\u201d against Covid-19 with Gavi. \\u201cImagine being Henrietta Fore. .. The strains on the organization are enormous.\\u201d Francis Collins, head of NIH, faces similar expansive responsibilities, and uses his own voice \\u201cas a person of faith\\u201d to address vaccine hesitancy. The Washington Post Live series, one-on-one conversations, creates a new \\u201cintimacy\\u201d where guests are more reflective. Over and over during the pandemic, journalists face the \\u201cWe don\\u2019t know\\u201d quandary of scientific uncertainty. \\u201cWe keep getting ahead of ourselves.\\u201d That requires laying out what different experts believe, a form of \\u201cservice journalism\\u201d.\\xa0Vaccine hesitancy among Republican men is a \\u201cnew phenomenon,\\u201d very \\u201cdistressing,\\u201d that reflects our immense national divisions.\\xa0People want to hear from their friends, from trusted individuals. It is important for people\\u2019s \\u201cbarber to be seen getting vaccinated.\\u201d\\xa0Her personal hope for the future? \\u201cI desperately want to return to real-life meetings\\u2026 Nothing beats face-to-face meetings.\\u201d\\nFrances Stead Sellers is a Senior Writer and Reporter on the National Desk at the Washington Post.'