Hard to ding the media on this one I think.
After all, the 51 figure was given to them by the state medical examiner's office, about as official as you're going to get in a situation like this.
The miscount seems to have occurred with the officials (who double counted a lot of victims apparently), not sure how the media could have prevented that.
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