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September likely will have more COVID-19 cases reported than all but three months in Ohio since the start of the pandemic.
Also, with today not included, September had more cases than May, June, July and August combined.
The state started seeing a spike in cases in mid-July, largely caused by the delta variant infecting the unvaccinated.
In mid-July, the state was averaging about 230 new cases reported daily. That was up to 6,600 Wednesday.
With one day to go in September, the month had 186,542 cases.
May through August in Ohio had a total of 148,588 cases, with August leading the way at 91,623.
Ohio hasn't seen cases this high since the November, December and January peak.
There were 205,366 cases reported in November, 279,317 in December and 195,412 in January.
September will finish very close to January's number, but it's highly unlikely to surpass it.
There would need to be 8,870 cases reported today to match January's number. Ohio has exceeded that amount only once this month -- 9,019 on Sept. 10.
However, September has a higher daily average case number, excluding today, than January. Through the first 29 days of this month, September is averaging 6,432.5 daily cases while January's average for the full 31 days of that month was 6,303.6.
COVID-19 DATA
The 6,463 COVID-19 cases Wednesday is down from the daily average of 6,600 for the past 21 days, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Wednesday's total includes 356 cases in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties combined.
The state had a total of 1,407,442 COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday with 1,258,840 presumed recovered.
The ODH usually provides death information on Tuesdays and Fridays. There were 21,945 total COVID-19 deaths in the state as of Tuesday.
VACCINATIONS
There were 6,301,661 people, 53.91 percent of the state's population, who at least had started getting inoculated as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, including 7,131 in the previous 24 hours, according to the ODH.
In Mahoning County, 51.99 percent of the population (118,883 people) had received at least one dose, while 49.75 percent of the population in Trumbull County (98,485 people) and 42.35 percent in Columbiana County (43,148 people) had as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to the ODH.
The state exceeded 50 percent of its population being fully vaccinated.
There were 5,849,283 people, 50.04 percent of the state's population, who finished the vaccinations as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, including 5,691in the prior 24 hours.
In Mahoning County, 48.33 percent of the population (110,530 people) had completed the process, while 45.93 percent of the population in Trumbull (90,934 people) and 39.48 percent of the population in Columbiana (40,223 people) had as of 6 a.m. Wednesday.