Yep. I largely believe this to be true. My wife is a researcher for a big university (she's on an H1B and we're working on her green card) and she is really struggling with what I'm saying vs. what her MD boss and colleagues are saying.

Watching Peter McCullough talk has really been a missing puzzle piece for me in trying to figure this out. I'll link a video where he argues before the Texas Senate HHS Committee that there's no direction at all from the CDC on outpatient treatment options.

He testifies that the current medical practice for a positive COVID test is "go home, rest, and if it gets bad, call us" -- there's no advice on what can be taken, what can be tried, or when to worry. He's pushed for outpatient treatment centers in Texas and has worked to direct patients to them. He claims to have reduced mortality by 85% and, in his words, "I work with very sick people."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM&t

You can only find his google scholar page via archive as he's been professionally unpersoned for this.

He's only the most cited cardiologist in the world.

EDIT because I veered away from the anecdote about my wife and I: She looks at what I look at, and especially what I shared above, and she concludes that a lot of doctors are used to listening to guidance from above because they don't have time to read primary literature on every single new cutting edge thing. If CDC says HCQ and Ivermectin don't work, they're not going to question it. Why question it when questioning it can cause you to lose your job?