The White Home says it supplied Nicki Minaj a cellphone name with medical consultants, not a go to, after the Grammy-nominated rapper stated Wednesday she was invited to the White Home after she posted inaccurate claims concerning the Covid vaccine.
A White Home official advised NBC Information {that a} name was “supplied” to Minaj to debate questions on “the security and effectiveness” of the Covid vaccine after she posted a number of tweets earlier this week, which led to Twitter quickly suspending her account.
“As we have now with others, we supplied a name with Nicki Minaj and one in all our docs to reply questions she has concerning the security and effectiveness of the vaccine,” the White Home official stated.
Minaj stated earlier Wedenesday that she had been “invited” to the White Home and indicated she was going. It’s not clear whether or not the decision has taken place already or a future assembly is within the works.
Minaj made the faulty statements in a collection of tweets this week explaining why she skipped this 12 months’s Met Gala. In a single publish, the rapper, who stated she examined optimistic for Covid herself, advised followers that she did not need to put her child in danger. Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, welcomed their first little one collectively final 12 months.
“They need you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it received’t for the Met. It’ll be as soon as I really feel I’ve achieved sufficient analysis. I’m engaged on that now. Within the meantime my loves, be protected. Put on the masks with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that free one,” she wrote in a single tweet.
In a 3rd tweet, the rapper shared a narrative about her cousin’s good friend in Trinidad who obtained the vaccine “& grew to become impotent.”
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention says on its most up to date info web page on vaccinations that there’s “presently no proof that any vaccines, together with COVID-19 vaccines, trigger fertility issues in ladies or males.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s main infectious illness skilled, additionally debunked the declare throughout an interview Tuesday on CNN.
“There’s no proof that it occurs, neither is there any mechanistic purpose to think about that it will occur,” he stated. “So the reply to your query is not any.”
He added, “There’s loads of misinformation, totally on social media, and the one method we all know to counter mis- and disinformation is to supply loads of right info,” he stated. “And to primarily debunk these sorts of claims, which can be harmless on her half. I am not blaming her for something however she ought to be considering twice about propagating info that basically has no foundation.”
