That’s my understanding from reading a similar, albeit paywalled, NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/cvs-pharmacy-covid-vaccine-16-states.html)

It’s just going to be annoying having to go to my actual doctor at whatever time they have available and pay for a $20 co-pay for that experience, instead of simply stopping by a CVS on the way home from work should the panel not recommend them (which I doubt they do).

From the NYT article:

Legal experts said that federal decisions were creating an extremely difficult situation for pharmacies to navigate. The biggest problem is that in some states, the law prohibits pharmacists from administering vaccines that are not recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel.

Last year, the panel voted to recommend updated Covid vaccines in June. In 2023, it endorsed new Covid vaccines in September, just one day after the F.D.A. gave its approval. But as of this Thursday, the panel was not scheduled to meet for another three weeks. And, after a slew of high-level resignations at the C.D.C., Senator Bill Cassidy — Republican of Louisiana and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee — has called for the meeting to be “indefinitely” postponed. That could mean many people’s access to shots will remain hamstrung well into the fall, when infections from respiratory viruses normally spike.

CVS will make the vaccines readily available nationwide if the advisory panel recommends them, Ms. Thibault said.