Elle Macpherson promoting anti-vax campaign during pandemic

Elle Macpherson appeared at an event to help promote an anti-vaccination campaign led by her boyfriend, Andrew Wakefield.

Supermodel Elle Macpherson has been seen promoting an anti-vaccination campaign led by her boyfriend, disgraced former doctor, Andrew Wakefield.

Macpherson took to the stage before an audience in North Carolina, US, to help boost an anti-vaccination propaganda video, saying the coronavirus pandemic is a “divine time” to promote the dangerous message.

It came as Pfizer and Moderna announced their vaccines currently in development were recording near 95 per cent effectiveness in late-stage trials.

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Andrew Wakefield and Elle Macpherson. Picture: Janice Hall/Twitter

The Aussie model took the stage with Wakefield, a former doctor who was banned from practising medicine after the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud when he presented bogus research claiming the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine leads to autism.

According to footage of the event obtained by the UK Daily Mail, after Macpherson was introduced by Wakefield, who called her his girlfriend, she turned to him and 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. … And for it to come in this divine time where vaccination and mandatory vaccination is on everybody’s lips.”

The 56-year-old model said she was “honoured” to be sharing the stage with Wakefield and noted she first heard about “Andy” in 1998 – the year of his now-notorious false claims linking vaccines with autism.

Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who is dating Elle Macpherson, speaking online.

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Wakefield’s false claims led to a massive wave of people refusing to get their children vaccinated – in turn leading to subsequent measles outbreaks.

After he was banned from practising medicine in Britain, Wakefield moved to the United States where he gained fame by becoming a filmmaker and anti-vax campaigner.

The disgraced doctor has seized on COVID-19 to further his claims, saying “the death toll had been ‘greatly exaggerated’ and the effects of the pandemic were ‘based upon a fallacy,’” according to the Daily Mail.

Doctors and medical professionals slammed these claims.

Retired paediatrician Dr Tony O’Sullivan told the newspaper: “The anti-vaccination movement has never been more dangerous and pernicious than at this time of the pandemic.”

He added: “It is based on ignorance and selfishness. It is peddling lies about the safety of vaccinations and the purposes of them. Vaccinations are a hugely important public measure to keep people safe.”

Elle Macpherson on the beach. Picture: Elle Macpherson/Instagram

As for Macpherson, Dr O’Sullivan said, “I think people are entering dangerous waters when they have scant knowledge about vaccinations against science and dedicated scientists.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission