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The county also had the third-highest rate in the state last week.
The jump comes as vaccines are becoming more widely available and more people are getting vaccinated, bringing hope and optimism during the more than year-long pandemic.
But it also serves as a reminder that the pandemic is not yet over, especially with the spread of more contagious and, according to Ohio Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, more deadly variants of the virus, including the B.1.1.7 variant, first discovered in the United Kingdom.
Summit County COVID-19 cases, explained
Summit County s average number of cases per capita during the previous two weeks is 300.92 per 100,000 residents (which equates to 1,628 cases in the county of 541,013 residents).
Summit had trailed the state starter vaccine rate for weeks, and continues to slightly lag behind the state rate of vaccine completions.
Here s a look at local and state COVID-19 data provided Friday by the Ohio Department of Health and area hospitals; the state updates death totals on Tuesdays and Fridays:
Summit County: 43,507
total cases (111 new), 3,763 hospitalizations (unchanged);900 deaths (three new). 168,105 people (31% of the county s population) have begun receiving the vaccine; 90,048 (16.6%) are fully vaccinated. Summit County hospitals on Friday reported treating 77 COVID-19 patients, two more than Thursday s count and the highest total since the March 1 count of 92. By hospital system, Friday s counts were 38 at Summa Health, 32 at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, five at Western Reserve Hospital and two at Akron Children s Hospital.
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