• Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order to ensure COVID vaccines remain available • Federal guidelines now require prescription for COVID vaccine, limiting access • Unvaccinated individuals face higher hospitalization and death risks from COVID

Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order late Sept. 11 to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines remain available for Arizonans — regardless of new directives from the federal government.

But it won’t necessarily mean that insurance companies will pay for them.

Her action allows the state Department of Health Services to issue a “standing order” that can serve as a prescription for the vaccine.

That comes after the Food and Drug Administration scrapped existing guidelines, which allowed virtually anyone to get the vaccine without a prescriptio

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