Nicki Minaj attends the Oscar de la Renta present throughout Vogue Week in New York in 2018. The White House is providing to attach Minaj with one of many Biden administration’s medical doctors to deal with her questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Nicki Minaj attends the Oscar de la Renta present throughout Vogue Week in New York in 2018. The White House is providing to attach Minaj with one of many Biden administration’s medical doctors to deal with her questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House provided Wednesday to attach Nicki Minaj with one of many Biden administration’s medical doctors to deal with her questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine, after the Trinidadian-born rapper’s misguided tweet alleging the vaccine causes impotence went viral.
The White House mentioned that they’ve provided such calls with others involved concerning the vaccine, a part of an aggressive public relations marketing campaign to beat again rampant disinformation concerning the vaccine’s security and effectiveness.
Minaj tweeted Wednesday that “the White House has invited me” and “sure, I am going,” however a White House official mentioned the rapper was merely provided a name.
Minaj made headlines earlier this week when she famous in a tweet to her greater than 22.6 million followers that the Met Gala required attendees to be vaccinated, and that she would not get the shot till “I really feel I’ve executed sufficient analysis.” She later issued a tweet sharing an unverified story a few cousin’s pal in Trinidad. Minaj asserted the unidentified particular person “turned impotent” and “his testicles turned swollen” after receiving the shot.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s main infectious illness professional, dismissed the declare as misinformation throughout an interview Tuesday on CNN.
“There is not any proof that it occurs, neither is there any mechanistic purpose to think about that it could occur,” he mentioned.
All year long, the White House has struggled to counteract resistance to getting a shot, notably amongst youthful and extra Republican demographics. The administration has pointed particularly to false or deceptive details about the protection and efficacy of the vaccines as a driver of that hesitance. It has referenced a examine by the Middle for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that research extremism, that linked a dozen accounts to spreading the vast majority of vaccine disinformation on Fb.
The administration has sought out new methods to refute disinformation and attain younger vaccine skeptics, earlier this yr inviting teen pop star Olivia Rodrigo to the White House to indicate her assist for the shot.