WASHINGTON - Millions more Americans are closer to getting a COVID-19 booster as influential government advisers on Thursday endorsed extra doses of all three of the nation’s vaccines — and said people could choose a different company’s brand for that next shot.Certain people who received Pfizer vaccinations months ago already are eligible for a booster and now advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say certain Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients should qualify, too.
And in a bigger change, the panel opened the option of "mixing and matching" that would allow a different vaccine for the extra dose than the kind people first received.RELATED: Pfizer says COVID-19 booster restores vaccine efficacy to 95.6%The Food and.