Keisha is a technician in a physician office laboratory that has a cell counter for performing RBC and WBC counts. The physician ordered a WBC count and differential count on a patient who complained of pain and fever. Keisha performed the WBC count using the cell counter and prepared a stained blood smear to be sent to a reference laboratory for the differential count. The WBC count was 16 10%/L. When checking the quality of the blood smear and stain before sending it to the reference laboratory, Keisha saw few WBCs on the smear. Is the patient's WBC count obtained by the cell counter low, normal, or high?