I ended up writing my own custom code for wp_count_posts() and wp_count_comments() to generate the counts from scratch (through custom wp queries) based on their original code (wp_count_posts() is in wp-includes/post.php and wp_count_comments() is in wp-includes/comment.php). Thanks @kaiser for the excellent effort.
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