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Ohio reported 3,783 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, which was the most for a single day since 4,140 were reported on Feb. 1.
Friday was the 18th consecutive day in which Ohio exceeded 1,000 daily COVID-19 cases. That includes 11 that had more than 2,000 cases with five of them exceeding 3,000 reported cases. Those five days of more than 3,000 new cases occurred in the past eight days, including Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Data from the Ohio Department of Health shows Trumbull and Mahoning counties have high hospitalization and death rates compared with other counties that have had a similar number of overall COVID-19 cases.
As of Friday, 17,494 total cases were reported in Trumbull County, with 1,301 hospitalizations and 494 deaths. That is one more death than was reported Tuesday.
The county with the closest case count to Trumbull -- Fairfield, with 17,505 cases -- reported some 530 fewer hospitalizations and less than half as many deaths, with those numbers at 769 and 211, respectively.
Another county with a similar case count, Medina, has reported 16,677 cases, 780 hospitalizations and 280 deaths.
Mahoning County reported 23,547 total cases Friday, with 1,127 hospitalizations and 617 deaths as of Friday, which is one more death since Tuesday.
Lake County, with 22,260 cases, reported 868 hospitalizations -- 259 fewer than Mahoning -- and 401 deaths -- 216 fewer than Mahoning.
Warren County, which has more total cases than Mahoning with 26,037, has reported 774 hospitalizations and 313 deaths. That's 353 fewer hospitalizations and 304 fewer deaths than in Mahoning County.
Columbiana County, with 9,715 cases, 531 hospitalizations and 236 deaths, shows a similar number of hospitalizations and deaths to counties with close total case counts. No new deaths were reported in Columbiana, according to the ODH.