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Lynchburg taxpayers will not be on the hook for the region’s new mass vaccination center after Liberty University agreed to rent a vacant building to the city at no cost, according to a lease agreement obtained by The News & Advance. City officials are putting the final touches on the nearly 20,000-square-foot center at Candlers Station, which is expected to serve up to 6,000 people a day once vaccination supply ramps up. “We hope this convenient location in Candler’s Station Shopping Center serves our neighbors well during these vaccination efforts,” Jerry Prevo, Liberty�...

Acceleration of the coronavirus’ spread from the holidays has raised red flags among Lynchburg-area health professionals, as more than 100 COVID-19 patients have been reliably occupying about a third of local hospital beds. Centra Health CEO Dr. Andy Mueller said at a Thursday news conference the provider’s coronavirus numbers have been “incredibly dramatic and something that I didn’t think that we would honestly ever get to.” Though Centra’s health system has been able to bend to accommodate fluctuating levels of patients whose symptoms are severe enough to requ...