Up to 20 people — or nearly three times the official count — may have died in the city’s latest Legionnaires outbreak because of misdiagnoses, according to the lawyer for four fatal victims who filed notices of claims over the mess Tuesday.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyer Ben Crump, who now represent a total of 35 surviving victims and the families of those who die in the Harlem saga, said many of those stricken were told by doctors they were suffering from pneumonia, not Legionnaires.
“This outbreak has claimed lives, and we believe deaths are being undercounted,” said Crump, claiming as many as 20 people may have died from the disease, or greatly more than the official seven noted by the state.
“They continue to come up with ways to try to sweep it under the rug,” he said of officials…