For the first time since the pandemic, there are limits on who can walk into a pharmacy and get a COVID vaccine.
That’s due to new federal guidance about the shots, which has been ever-evolving since Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. appointment as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
As of late September, several Ohio pharmacies were offering the updated vaccine, without a prescription, to people the Food and Drug Administration deemed eligible. That includes people 65 and older and those 64 or younger who have a medical condition that puts them at a higher risk for COVID-19…