I know… we all look alike,” Minaj tweeted in response. She’s peddling lies that will cost lives,” Morgan tweeted. “Professor Whitty beefing with the ghastly (one of the rudest little madams I’ve ever met) is not the breaking news that I expected today - but it’s most welcome. Meanwhile, across the pond, polarizing British journalist Piers Morgan welcomed the Minaj breaking-news narrative as addressed by England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty. “Vaccines causing swollen testicles, that’s not a thing,” he said. Sanjay Gupta said a lot of people have “concomitant issues” - health concerns that might pop up around the same time as a vaccination but have nothing to do with the shots. “I’m not blaming her for anything,” Fauci continued after bemoaning COVID-19 misinformation on social media, “but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis.”ĬNN’s Dr. “There’s no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen,” added the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson - and reproductive issues in men or women, Fauci said, “The answer to that, Jake, is a resounding no. Responding Tuesday to a question from CNN’s Jake Tapper about whether there was a link between the three vaccines approved in the U.S. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied- Nicki Minaj September 13, 2021 His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. ![]() My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. Monday’s tweet to her more than 22 million followers has prompted medical experts to weigh in on the vaccine conspiracy theory to debunk disinformation by people with huge social media followings. ![]() Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the takeaway from her viral Twitter thread instead, it was her citizen-researcher stance and her bizarre friend-of-a-cousin anecdote. She said she contracted the disease, which forced her to stay away from her young son, and doesn’t want to repeat that brutal experience.ĭespite her presumptive natural immunity, she said she wanted to do her research before getting inoculated. In fact, her hesitancy apparently had little to do with her Trinidadian cousin’s friend’s purported side effects, but rather with her own COVID-19 experience. It should be noted that Minaj said she would likely get vaccinated to go on tour, and she recommended the shots to anyone who needed a jab to keep their job. Rapper Nicki Minaj voiced her vaccine hesitancy in response to the Met Gala’s jab requirement and in doing so opened a bizarre can of worms. Music Nicki Minaj is skipping the Met Gala, but her COVID vaccine doubts are the real news “Twitter did not take any enforcement action on the account referenced,” a spokesperson for the company said in an e-mail to The Times on Wednesday. The social-media platform, however, disputes that. Minaj claimed that the brewing backlash also prompted Twitter to lock her account Wednesday afternoon, so she continued her thoughts on her Instagram Stories, writing that she could no longer tweet and was in “Twitter jail” because “they didn’t like what I was saying.” coronavirus expert swiftly debunked the notion that the vaccine affects the reproductive system. The tweets also earned her a lot of critics, getting the attention of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as well as Dr. Minaj’s viral vaccine-hesitancy tweets this week - mainly her cringe-worthy citation of an anecdotal, friend-of-a-cousin experience with swollen testicles - made her the topic of cable news shows and Twitter memes and the punchline for plenty of late-night jokes.Įven Trinidadian TV covered it, with one news anchor ridiculing the story about her cousin’s friend’s “flat tire.” Just call her Miss Information Barbie when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. Say what you will about Nicki Minaj: The rapper knows how to fan the flames of controversy.
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