Published May 3, 2021, 1:19 PM The document that those who wanted to avail of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines were asked to sign is not a waiver but an informed consent which states that all of those who would be vaccinated were properly screened. Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya made the clarification amid insinuations that the document is a form of authorization from the vacinees that that they will not hold those inoculated them with vaccine responsible for anything that would happen to them. Malaya said the informed consent was based on the Department of Health (DOH) memorandum 21-0123. He added that the informed consent is only an Emergency Use Authority (EUA) signifying that those concerned were appropriately screened.