well, i’m going to be contrarian and go with, she was legitimately sick from that abcess - until we see a wbc report, not a part of the autopsy that I saw, we’ll have to agree to disagree :)
Autopsy already tells us all other tests were negative except for strep. ;) You won’t see a white count. If Perper had that he would be waving it like a glory flag. He never did because he can’t is my guess.