Fauci debunks coronavirus vaccine infertility conspiracies after Nicki Minaj tweets.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pushed back against a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory shared by Nicki Minaj - insisting there is no evidence that it causes infertility after the pop star tweeted about her cousin's hesitancy to get vaccinated and sparked a social media controversy. Minaj tweeted on Monday night that her cousin in Trinidad, where the singer and rapper is from, "won't get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen."

Fauci, in response to a question Tuesday from CNN's Jake Tapper about Minaj's claim, said "the answer to that, Jake, is a resounding no." "There's no evidence that it happens, nor is there any mechanistic reason to imagine that it would happen. So the answer to your question is no." Other medical experts have long said that claims about infertility linked to vaccinations are unsubstantiated.