Minaj skipped this year's Met Gala, which enforced a vaccine mandate, saying she was avoiding public events, generally, because she has a new baby at home.
Minaj said a family friend developed swollen testicles and impotency after getting the Covid vaccine shots.
In a series of tweets Monday, the ten-time Grammy nominated rap artist told fans she would only get immunized once she did enough research and recommended that they wear masks and get the shots if they're required to for work. MSNBC National Correspondent Joy Ann Reid criticized Minaj: "You have 22 million followers on Twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, by God sister, you can do better than that."
"We are all human, and we tend to associate things," Dr. Arturo Casadevall, chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told CNBC. He noted that swollen testicles and impotence aren't side effects to the vaccine. "So oftentimes, things that are not related get associated, and to that person, that association is very strong. But this is why we have science.
In a subsequent tweet, Minaj said she was "sure" she'd eventually get vaccinated in order to go on tour. Attempts to reach Minaj's representatives were unsuccessful.found, and it's a major obstacle to achieving the herd immunity experts say is necessary to curb future Covid surges in the U.S.
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