No Link Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Testicular Inflammation
The Claim
COVID-19 vaccine causes impotence.
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Nicki Minaj has expressed hesitancy about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine due to the potential for the vaccine to cause impotence. More than 200,000 people have engaged with her posts about the topic.
Misbar’s Analysis
Erectile dysfunction in men, sometimes referred to as impotence, is the inability to get and keep an erection firm enough for sex, according to the Mayo Clinic. To date, while the mRNA vaccines have been linked to inflammation around the heart in young men, the vaccines do not cause inflammation in the testicles, male infertility, and erectile dysfunction, according to SciTechDaily.com. Ranjith Ramasamy, director of reproductive urology at the University of Miami, has looked at the potential effects of vaccines in these areas and found none.
In response to Ms. Minaj’s tweets about her decision to wait on the vaccine, the U.K.'s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was not very familiar with Nicki Minaj and preferred to listen to Nikki Kanani, who says everyone should get vaccinated.
In response to Prime Minister Johnson, Ms. Minaj replied with a video message claiming that she is actually British and went to school with Margaret Thatcher. However, Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982, in Saint James, Trinidad, and Tobago, and moved with her family to Queens, New York, when she was five years old according to Biography.com.
The COVID-19 vaccine has not been linked to testicular inflammation or infertility in men. It is also untrue that Nicki Minaj was born in Britain and went to school with Margaret Thatcher.
