id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-340090-dqhdws5k Behera, P. Role of ivermectin in the prevention of COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study 2020-11-03 .txt text/plain 3780 246 59 title: Role of ivermectin in the prevention of COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study 11 It has also been found to prevent symptoms of COVID-19 in post-exposure prophylaxis among HCWs. 12 When given to high-risk healthcare workers in contact with COVID-19 patients in a study from Egypt, it was found that compared to 7.4% of the intervention arm, 58.5% of participants from the control arm had symptoms suggesting of COVID-19 infection. Our study has shown that two doses of ivermectin prophylaxis at a dose of 300 μg/kg given 72 hours apart was associated with a 73% reduction of COVID-19 infection among HCWs for the is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint ./cache/cord-340090-dqhdws5k.txt ./txt/cord-340090-dqhdws5k.txt