Nick Minaj is still catching heat over a vaccine claim involving swollen testicles.
On Thursday night, the Philadelphia Public Health Department caught wind of a Nicki tweet posted on Feb. 16: “Nothing like watching someone speak confidently about something they know nothing about,” she wrote without providing context.
The health department responded to the message with the eyes emoji as well as a screenshot of a tweet Nicki shared in September 2021. The post urged fans to think twice before receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, or risk some penis-related side effects.
“My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent,” she wrote at the time. “His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.”
Nicki’s claim was met with mixed reactions; some fans took the anecdote seriously, many laughed it off, and others accused the Queen rapper of spreading false and dangerous information. Dr. Anthony Fauci—the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—addressed the controversy during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper last summer. The doctor insisted there was no evidence that FDA-approved COVID vaccines caused the kind of symptoms Nicki mentioned.
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