Your Jaw Will Drop When You Hear What Nicki Minaj Just Said About The Covid Vaccine–She Can’t Be Serious
September 17, 2021 by Maria Pierides
Nicki Minaj has said and done some outrageous things in the past – but we think her latest comments about the COVID vaccine might just be the most controversial and jaw-dropping thing she has ever said. We still can’t believe it!
The 38-year-old rapper caused a lot of controversy when she took to social media to share her opinions about Coronavirus – specifically, some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines.
The mom-of-one first started talking about the subject when she tweeted about her cousin’s alleged hesitancy to get the vaccine, due to fears of impotency. In a tweet from September 13, the Bang Bang rapper claimed that her cousin in Trinidad (where she is originally from) “won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen”.
To recap, false claims about the vaccines causing infertility have spread through the internet since the vaccines first became available earlier this year. Although vaccines can have slightly mild side effects for some people, infertility has not been listed as one of the side effects of any of the vaccines that have been approved.
“There are stories out there on the Internet about how vaccination can lead to infertility. There’s absolutely nothing to that,” Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told The Washington Post earlier this year. And just last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that “there is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men.”
Many people commented on Minaj’s status, saying that her tweet was dangerous as it spread misinformation about the virus and the vaccines, and also put vulnerable people at further risk, if it steered them away from getting vaccinated. MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid noted that Minaj’s tweets could increase vaccine hesitancy in the Black community, which could potentially be life-threatening. “For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and to save their lives? My God, sister, you can do better than that,” she wrote in response to Minaj’s original tweet.