Hyser is one of the first Americans to participate in a groundbreaking COVID-19 mix-and-match study, aimed at assessing whether boosters work, and whether different COVID-19 shots are safe — and possibly more effective — when they're mixed together. For now, the study is boosting only with a single dose of Moderna's vaccine, whether participants' first shots were from Moderna, or from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson — the other two US-authorized vaccines. Other combinations of the vaccines, and which order they're taken in, will be added in to the study later on. Study participants will get routine blood draws (Hyser...