The latest COVID-19 vaccines are only available to Oregonians with a prescription for the time being, but the state’s doctors are hesitant to order the inoculations.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the updated COVID-19 shots for seniors and younger Americans with certain health conditions — excluding healthy children and young adults — but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has not yet issued recommendations on who should receive them.

Until the committee issues its recommendation, state policy bars pharmacists from giving the shots to anyone without a prescription, even to those for whom the drug is approved.

So go see a doctor, then? It might not be so simple.

Doctors, too, are hesitant to prescribe or administer the new COVID-19

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