There are not a lot of normal intersections between the far future and the mechanics of delivering health care, but in the face of a global pandemic, situations make for, as they say, strange bedfellows. With the world in the grips of wrestling with COVID-19, the family of science fiction legend
Leonard Nimoy saw a series of billboards around Los Angeles and appreciated the imagery, projecting the idea of people protecting themselves and others from the ravages of the latest coronavirus. After a lengthy series of conversations between the Nimoy family, ViacomCBS and L.A. Care, the nation's largest public health plan, a plan was launched to encourage vaccinations and mask usage.