A handful of states like Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Mexico have recently changed their laws to allow pharmacists to give the COVID vaccine despite the FDA change, hoping to keep the status quo in their states -- but the patchwork of changing laws around the country has been difficult to track.

The Virginia Department of Health issued an order late Thursday that spells out who’s eligible to get the new COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription, and how those who don’t meet the