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Originally Posted by kcal63
While ivermectin seems to help reduce viral load in patients, it has not been shown to have any prophylactic properties, thus far, and should probably only be used after infection is confirmed. For general prophylaxis purposes melatonin, zinc and vitamins b1 and C are known to be safe and anecdotally seem to reduce infection rates. (Latest study on melatonin found that among some sub groups those taking it had a 28% lower infection rate when other factors are accounted for.)
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Yes, it has indeed been shown to have prophylaxis.
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https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-c...f-COVID-19.pdf
>>>Exposure prophylaxis studies of ivermectin’s ability to prevent transmission of COVID-19 Data is also now available showing large and statistically significant decreases in the transmission of COVID-19 among human subjects based on data from fourrandomized controlled trials (RCT) and three observational controlled trials (OCT) with fourof the seven(two of themRCT’s) published in peer-reviewed journals (Behera et al., 2020;Bernigaud et al., 2020;Carvallo et al., 2020b;Elgazzar et al., 2020;Hellwig and Maia, 2020;Shouman, 2020)<<