A team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is predicting that the total number of weekly COVID-19 deaths could increase to more than 11,000 in the week ending Sept. 25.

That would be up 56% from the U.S. COVID-19 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, on Aug. 30, for the week ending Sept. 4.

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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.