In the week ending Sept. 25th, the CDC predicts that the total number of weekly COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. could increase to more than 11,000 — up 56% from the death total of 7,327 for the seven-day period ending Sept. 1, and up 16% from the total of 9,860 that the CDC team predicted for the week ending Sept. 4.
The latest actual weekly death count, and the totals in the forecasts, are much higher than the average of about 1,000 to 5,000 deaths per week for the period from April through July, but not as high as the totals the CDC recorded for the pandemic mortality peaks that occurred around April 2020 and January of this year.
In April 2020, reported COVID-19 mortality peaked at around 15,000 deaths per week.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
