The jockeying for key participation started with the British-Swedish pharma firm AstraZeneca being contracted by private business firms to supply an initial 2.6 million doses of its vaccine by middle of next year. We reiterate the question asked last time: Who makes the big decisions in the multibillion-peso mass vaccination program? Is it General Carlito Galvez Jr., since he is the “vaccine czar,” or Health Secretary Francisco Duque by virtue of his office, or President Duterte himself? Galvez the soldier does not look like he was the one who ordered it, more like the one ordered to do it. Seated a little to Duterte’s left when he said that was Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, the TRB chair himself.

Source: Philippine Star December 19, 2020 15:56 UTC