Anyone 65 and older can now go to their pharmacy without a prescription and roll up their sleeve for a jab if they want. Others will need a prescription from a health care provider. The new standing orders for COVID vaccines were effective immediately. State law requires that they have a prescription unless an order such as the ones issued by the state health director for Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax say otherwise. The New York Times reported Friday that in preparation for that meeting, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had been reviewing rare cases of children who died purportedly after receiving a COVID vaccine.