(NOEL CELIS / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) “Why settle for 50 percent efficacy when we can go for the vaccines with 95 percent efficacy? Let us give our people the best protection they deserve. Buhay ng mamamayang Pilipino ang nakataya dito. (The lives of the Filipino people are at stake here),” Fortun said. According to the member of the House minority bloc, it would be “nonsense” for the Filipinos and the Duterte government to choose the China vaccine “at this point.” He noted that the vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna have up to 95 percent and 94 percent efficacy based on Phase 3 clinical trial results while the China vaccine has yet to complete Phase 3 testing and available information showed only 50 percent efficacy and costing about the same as the vaccines with 94 to 95 percent efficacy.