Colorado’s Chief Medical Officer on Wednesday issued an order allowing pharmacies to provide the COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription ahead of the respiratory disease season.

The state is one of 14 states with strict guidelines that require a prescription for vaccination when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet recommended schedule.

“I’m taking action to ensure that Coloradans who want to can easily and conveniently get the safe and effective updated COVID vaccine, along with the flu vaccine, this fall without having to go to a doctor first,” Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.

“These effective vaccines are available at many local pharmacies and supermarkets, and I encourage my fellow Coloradans to join me in getting protected,” he said.

State pharmacy laws govern where pharmacies can vaccinate.

Until the Center for the Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) formally votes to add the updated COVID-19 vaccine to the recommended schedule, pharmacies in certain states can only give it under specific conditions.

In Colorado, that means patients need a prescription.

Without the order announced Wednesday, Colorado residents younger than 65 years old or without an underlining health condition are unable to receive a COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription.

Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated.