Special Report

This Is the County in the Lynchburg, VA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 2:15 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Lynchburg metropolitan area, located in Virginia, a total of 60,938 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 23,378 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though Lynchburg has fewer COVID-19 infections per capita than the national average, there are parts of the metro area that appear to be at higher risk than others.

The broader Lynchburg metro area comprises five counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, the city of Lynchburg has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 19,801 confirmed infections in the city of Lynchburg, or 24,711 for every 100,000 people.

A relatively high infection rate does not necessarily mean COVID-19 related fatalities per capita are higher in Lynchburg than they are across all of the Lynchburg area, however. There have been a total of 333 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in the city of Lynchburg, in line with 331 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Lynchburg metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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