And why Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to Nicki Minaj.
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Just ahead of the Met Gala earlier this week, Nicki Minaj tweeted to her 22 million followers that she would not be attending the event. The rapper said that she would not be compelled to get a Covid vaccine, which was required for entry. She added that she had heard a friend of her cousin's in Trinidad became impotent because of the vaccine, and that people should "pray on it & make sure you're comfortable with ur decision," and "not bullied" into getting vaccinated. |
In response to Ms. Minaj's claims about impotence, America's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that there is no link between infertility and the Covid vaccine. "There's no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen," he said. Despite the international debunking of Ms. Minaj's misinformation, the story in its titillating and specific detail still has legs, or as The Late Show With Stephen Colbert put it: "Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Testicles Are Still The Week's Biggest Story." |
I imagine the reason Dr. Fauci bothered to respond to Ms. Minaj is because he knows that celebrities and influencers can sway people's health behavior. As I reported in 2019, celebrities like Jenny McCarthy helped to popularize a discredited link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism. In part because of this celebrity activism, even before Covid there had been a decline of confidence in vaccines and the medical professionals who study and administer them. |
All of this matters for parents because, as we know, adult Covid vaccines are the best way we have right now to keep ourselves and our yet-to-be vaccinated kids safe from the virus. But additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that there has been "a marked decline in pediatric vaccine ordering and administration" since the pandemic began. Now experts are concerned that other preventable infectious diseases might stage a comeback. We have enough to worry about without another major measles outbreak. As Dr. Fauci said of Ms. Minaj, "I'm not blaming her for anything, but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis." |
Related: The Food and Drug Administration warns against parents trying to get children under 12 the Covid shot off-label before it is approved. "Children are not small adults — and issues that may be addressed in pediatric vaccine trials can include whether there is a need for different doses or different strength formulations of vaccines already used for adults," F.D.A. researchers said in a statement. |
Also this week, Claire Cain Miller reports that most school districts in the United States do not yet meet President Biden's demands for regularly testing unvaccinated people, requirements for teachers to be vaccinated and universal masking. Jacqueline Mroz shines a light on the high rates of infertility among female physicians. And last Friday Christina Caron explored a troubling increase in suicide among Black youth. |
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