Elle Macpherson accused of promoting ‘anti-vax’ campaign

Model Elle Macpherson has been accused of promoting an ‘anti-vaccination’ campaign, after appearing alongside partner, former doctor Andrew Wakefield.

In 2010 Wakefield was banned from practicing medicine in Britain, and moved to the United States where he began making films and campaigning.

Actress Macpherson, who appeared in Friends as Janine in 1999, spoke on stage alongside Wakefield in the US last month, ahead of a screening of an anti-vaccination video, claiming the pandemic was the ‘divine’ time to share such messages.

In footage obtained by Daily Mail, after Macpherson was introduced by Wakefield, who referred to her at his girlfriend, the model said: ‘You made this film during Covid, and it’s interesting because it’s such beautiful, sacred timing when you watch the film, because it’s so pertinent and so relevant. …

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‘And for it to come in this divine time where vaccination and mandatory vaccination is on everybody’s lips.’

The pair have been linked since 2018, however, neither had publicly commented on their relationship.

Macpherson allegedly added she was ‘honoured’ to be sharing the stage with Wakefield and said she’d first heard about him in 1998, which was the year he presented research claiming the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine leads to autism, which was found to be ‘elaborate fraud’.

Reacting to the appearance, Dr Tony O’Sullivan said: ‘I think people are entering dangerous waters when they have scant knowledge about vaccinations against science and dedicated scientists.’

According to the publication, amid the pandemic the former doctor claimed, during a ‘Health Freedom Summit’, that the coronavirus death toll – which has surpassed 1.4million worldwide – had been ‘greatly exaggerated’, and added the effects of the Covid pandemic were ‘based upon a fallacy’.

The video comes amid the news of Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccination candidates, which have reported 95% efficacy in trials so far, with the Oxford University vaccine claimed to stop 90% of people getting symptoms.

Recently a nurse also shared how some of her conspiracy theorist patients have continued to deny the existence of Covid-19 even as they lay dying of it.

Jodi Doering, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said she has treated more than one doomed patient who criticized her for wearing PPE while slating President-elect Joe Biden.

Doering, who works as an ER nurse, explained: ‘Their dying breaths are literally “Find out what’s wrong with me.” And when you say it’s Covid, people say, “No, that can’t be it.”‘

Macpherson’s reps declined to comment when contacted by Metro.co.uk.

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