Minaj claim ‘wasted time’ in Trinidad
NICKI MINAJ’S claims that her cousin’s friend was left impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine have been dismissed by Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister.
Terrence Deyalsingh said the Caribbean country found no evidence of a patient with such side effects – and officials had ‘wasted so much time’ looking into it.
US rapper Minaj, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, sparked a global backlash after tweeting she knew of someone there whose testicles became swollen after getting the vaccine.
She said he became impotent – leading to his fiancée leaving him.
But Mr Deyalsingh joined the list of experts to slap down the Anaconda rapper’s claims as he told a press conference: ‘As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported side effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad... and none that we know of anywhere in the world.’
He said officials ‘take all these claims seriously’ but ‘unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim’.
Minaj, 38, had tweeted: ‘My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent.
‘His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the
wedding. Make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.’
Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, said such claims were ‘clearly ridiculous’ and ‘designed just to scare’. He added people who
were ‘peddling untruths’ about vaccines should be ‘ashamed’.
And US Covid adviser Dr Anthony Fauci told CNN Minaj ‘should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis’.