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During his appearance on Monday’s episode of 'The Late Late Show,' Ken Jeong used his medical expertise to address the state of the coronavirus pandemic and Nicki Minaj’s recent tweets about the COVID-19 vaccine.

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00:00Does the COVID vaccine cause your cousin's friend's balls to swell?

00:07Is that medically accurate?

00:10Ken Jeong is using his medical expertise to debunk Nicki Minaj's vaccine theories.

00:15Before his career as a comedian, actor and host,

00:18Jeong was also a practicing internist for seven years.

00:21So during an appearance on The Late Late Show,

00:23Jeong took the time to address the state of the coronavirus,

00:26as well as Nicki Minaj's tweet saying there's no truth to it.

00:29In any cousin, nephew, relative, it doesn't cause any ball swelling whatsoever.

00:37There it is.

00:38He also joked to not get any medical advice from Nicki Minaj.

00:42I do get a little cardio, like cardiology from Cardi B because she's a licensed cardiologist.

00:46But other than that.

00:47On a more serious note, Jeong said that the medical community could have done a better job

00:51by sharing information about the pandemic and the Delta variant.

00:54He said the Delta variant is so contagious because the amount of virus

00:58is a thousand times the concentration of the original COVID strain.

01:02He then compared the vaccines to an umbrella protecting you from the rain.

01:06And there's a monsoon.

01:07There's a hurricane coming down.

01:09You're going to get wet.

01:10You're going to get affected.

01:12Later in the interview, Corden noted that the Asian Hall of Fame

01:15recently announced Jeong as a new inductee.

01:17The comedian said that the message the organization wants to spread is to stop Asian hate.

01:22Once this pandemic reaches, you know, a new meadow of like end,

01:28then we as an Asian American culture can also have some peace as well.

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