Your GP may try to lay out the state of research before you, but that does not change the fact that he/she will do one of those things: 1. Treat you according

Your GP may try to lay out the state of research before you, but that does not change the fact that he/she will do one of those things: 1. Treat you according to guidelines/expert opinion, should you choose to. 2. Give you the opportunity to participate in a relevant study. But _never ever_ will your GP formulate an experimental treatment plan based on his own research. Not GP's job, and big risk of liability. Your GP has at best a cursory view of the research happening in a certain field. COVID is different due to several good and bad reasons: hugely politicized, confusing messages from experts, and most of all novelty. 'Lack of medical consensus' usually means 'several treatments backed by experts are available', not 'do what you like'. COVID is too new for the dust around expert debates to have settled. That's what makes it different.