US authorizes 'mix and match' Covid vaccine boosters: regulator

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The Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are authorised in the US. A single dose of any of them may now be used following completion of primary vaccination with a different COVID-19 vaccine.

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