If you take an at-home coronavirus test, who keeps track of the results? Probably no one

LOS ANGELES — The rapid spread of the omicron variant may have inspired you to snap up a few rapid coronavirus test kits — if you could find them, that is.

And when you started worrying that you’d caught the coronavirus, you may have put one of those kits to use. You carefully swabbed the insides of both nostrils, mixed your sample with a few drops of reagent, placed it on a test strip and waited 15 minutes to see your results.

But after doing all that — and gasping with either relief or dismay — you may have overlooked the kit’s last instruction: to report your results.

Some test kits