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Ohio had more COVID-19 cases in just the last 15 days of August than the three previous months combined.
Overall, 91,623 cases were reported last month.
Of the 31 days in August, 15 of them had daily cases exceeding 3,000. There haven't been that many days in a month with at least 3,000 daily cases since January.
Also, all but two of those 15 days with more than 3,000 cases in August were in the second half of the month. That includes the past eight straight days with six having more than 4,000 daily cases and three of those exceeding 5,000 cases, including Tuesday with 5,914.
The state had 32,296 cases reported during the first 16 days of August and 59,327 during the final 15 days.
The cases in the last 15 days of August are more than the 56,965 total cases for May (29,622), June (9,390) and July (17,953) combined.
Only last November with 205,366 cases, December with 279,317 cases and January with 195,412 cases had more reported in a month than August.
COVID-19 DATA
The 5,914 new COVID-19 cases reported Tuesday is up from the daily average of 3,570 for the past 21 days, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
It's the most cases reported in a day since Jan. 21 when 7,271 were reported.
Of those new cases Tuesday, 214 were in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties combined.
The entire state was averaging about 260 cases per day less than seven weeks ago.
The state had a total of 1,220,900 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday with 1,128,409 presumed recovered and 20,866 deaths.
The ODH usually provides death information on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Of the 67 additional COVID-19 deaths since Friday, five were in Mahoning County.
Mahoning County had 24,342 total COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday with 22,506 presumed recovered and 623 people died.
Trumbull County had 18,004 total COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday with 16,696 presumed recovered and 496 deaths.
Columbiana County had 10,115 total COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday with 9,200 presumed recovered and 236 deaths.
VACCINATIONS
There were 6,071,385 people, 51.94 percent of the state's population, who had at least started getting inoculated as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, including 11,804 in the previous 24 hours, according to the ODH.
In Mahoning County, 50.29 percent of the population (115,009 people) had received at least one dose while 48.07 percent of the population in Trumbull County (95,157 people) and 40.75 percent in Columbiana County (41,516 people) had as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to the ODH.
There were 5,609,788 people, 47.99 percent of the state's population, who finished the vaccinations as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, including 9,554 in the prior 24 hours.
In Mahoning County, 46.39 percent of the population (106,097 people) had completed the process while 44.04 percent of the population in Trumbull (87,181 people) and 37.65 percent of the population in Columbiana (38,360 people) had as of 6 a.m. Tuesday.