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    You just tested yourself for COVID-19. Should you report the results to health officials?

    by Jon Healey and Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times Jul 19, 2022 4 minutes
    A woman points to her arm to receive her booster shot at a COVID-19 vaccination and testing site decorated for Cinco de Mayo at Ted Watkins Park in Los Angeles on May 5, 2022.

    The latest surge in COVID-19 infections in California may surpass last winter’s tidal wave, health officials say. And judging by wastewater tests, infections may be even more widespread than the official numbers indicate.

    One reason is that some people’s symptoms are so mild that they don’t seek treatment or even get tested. But another significant factor may be the large number of people using at-home tests and not reporting the results.

    “Home testing leads to marked underestimates of case numbers,” Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of U.C. San Francisco’s Department of Medicine, said in an email. “Clearly many hundreds of thousands of people

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