It may take more than a week to get your coronavirus test results back.

As a result, testing continues to be an uneven experience, from who can get a COVID-19 test to the ease of finding a testing site in your area, and even how long the test results take to come in.

Others may require a doctor's order and an appointment with a testing facility, a measure that could help keep crowds of people waiting to be tested from gathering and overwhelming the testing site and staff.

If you're not taking an at-home test, when you go to get screened for the coronavirus you'll either be directed to a clinic or to a drive-through testing site.

In any area where mass amounts of people are being tested for COVID-19, backups at processing facilities could lead to a longer wait time for results.

In Kentucky, Norton Healthcare originally said test results would take longer than anticipated because of increased testing nationwide, but now says the results will be delivered within three to five days.

Once your results are available, your doctor will contact you to let you know if you've tested positive or negative for COVID-19. .

If results show that you've been infected with COVID-19, make sure to let everyone you've come in close contact with in the last two weeks know.

For more information on coronavirus testing, here's how to find a coronavirus testing site near you and check wait times, who qualifies for COVID-19 testing and what you need to know about a coronavirus home testing kit