The COVID Tracking Project, a website that provides coronavirus numbers from public data by state and for the U.S., shows Ohio has an overall lower infection rate in comparison to many of the neighboring states which did not respond as early to the pandemic. 

The number of new coronavirus cases in Ohio climbed to 5,878 on Friday, up by 366 since yesterday. 

The numbers include 358 cases in Mahoning county, with 31 deaths, 149 in Trumbull county, with 8 deaths and 92 in Columbiana county with 6 deaths.

While Mahoning county still has the most deaths in the state, followed by Cuyahoga county with 22.

With the numbers still rising and the disease still spreading within the state, it is too soon to determine if Governor Mike DeWine and state Health Director Amy Acton's early response is the primary reason that the number of confirmed cases is lower than in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana.

The COVID Tracking Project, which is run by journalists and others that are helping to gather information on the coronavirus shows Pennsylvania has 18,228 confirmed positives and 87,374 negatives. Indiana, which has nearly half the total population of Ohio, currently has 6,351 confirmed positives, and 25,782 confirmed as negative. Michigan doesn't offer totals for the number of people tested but lists its cases by total specimens tested, with 21,504 positives and 31,362 negatives. 

Around the globe, the death number from this pandemic surpassed 100,000 today and more than 1.6 million cases.