Terrence Deyalsingh, Trinidad and Tobago’s health minister, has dismissed claims by the rapper Nicki Minaj that her cousin’s friend had become impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. 'As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported suchside effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad … and none that we know of anywhere in the world,' Deyalsingh said in a press conference. Deyalsingh lamented the time health officials spent investigating the claim, saying that they 'take all these claims seriously'. Minaj prompted a global backlash with a tweet in which she claimed that a cousin’s friend had become impotent after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Nicki Minaj claim that Covid vaccine can cause impotence dismissed by Trinidad and Tobago https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/nicki-minaj-covid-vaccine-claim-impotence-dismissed-trinidad-and-tobago

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