Former Coronation Street actor Sean Ward has stunned fans with a strange anti-vaccine rant on his Instagram stories.
The 32-year-old, who played drug dealer Callum Logan on the soap from 2013 to 2014, claimed that those receiving a vaccine against coronavirus would become "super-spreaders".
The actor also confused the efficacy rate of the vaccine with the general mortality rate of coronavirus, bizarrely arguing that taking a vaccine would lead to an increased risk of dying from the disease.
"Morning guys, this is just your daily reminder that COVID-19 has an effective survival rate of 99.96% if you are age 0 to 60 with or without an underlying health condition," he informed his 165,000 followers.
"The vaccine has 95. The Johnson & Johnson has 81. So you're taking the medicine that is putting you more at risk from dying to COVID and you don't see the problem here.
"Stop. Stop with the vaccine. The more you have the vaccine, the closer we are to them coming to vaccinate the kids.
"Don't take a medicine that is going to give you a less than effective chance to beat the virus. Come on. Common sense."
Pointing at the camera, Ward added: "So if you take the vaccine, you get low to no symptoms. Low to no symptoms, that's what a vaccine does. It doesn't stop transmission, so you can still pass it onto someone, but you're going to have low to no symptoms.
"Which I'm sorry, makes you asymptomatic. It turns YOU into a super-spreaders. And we're the fucking nut jobs. The vaccine is not safe. Stop."
According to the latest government figures, just shy of 29 million people have now received a first dose of the vaccine in the UK.
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