That story  about some cabinet men and members of the Presidential Security Group  (PSG) having themselves inoculated  against COVID-19,  using vaccines donated by China, has refused to die down, as  various officials have come up with unexpected details about the case. We have  noted that there  are at least two  points that must  be looked into. First is the use of vaccines not yet approved by our own  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  -- a violaion of law. Second is the  use of the donated vaccine by  a  select group  to protect themselves – despite official government policy that the country’s health workers, along weith the poor and vulnerable, should be the first to get vaccinated. Defense Secretary  Delfin Lorenzana,  chairman of  the  National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19, has now said the vaccines in question  had actually been smuggled into the country – another violation  of law. When it was pointed out that the  health workers who vaccinated the PSG men could be charged with administering a vaccine without FDA approval, the PSG chief said the men actually vaccinated themselves. With so many details coming out  from various sources in the government  – some reports  contradicting other reports -- with no one apparently on top of the whole situation, the Senate  said it will  convene as a Committee  of the Whole to  look into the entire government vaccination program. This  should include the very first  question  that came up months ago – Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s charge that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III “dropped the ball” when he failed to take  action on Pfizer’s original  offer as early as July  to supply  the Philippines with 10 million doses of  its vaccine. Secretary Duque later said it was only in September that his department, not the Department of Science and Technology,  was authorized to deal with Pfizer. Mass vaccinations have now begun in countries which were able to acquire  the approved vaccines early,  including the United Kingdom in Europe, the United States in the Western Hemisphere, and India in Asia. The earliest the Philippines will have Pfizer vaccines is in May, five  months from today. Though all this time, we will have  to  rely on our own resources – mostly  our own people protecting themselves with face masks and face shields and with physical distancing.