You saw that right. Sweden has 1/5th the population of South Korea…

… but 5x the number of confirmed COVID cases, and 12.5x the number of reported COVID deaths.

That’s the ABSOLUTE numbers. I’m no mathematician, but… that’s pretty shocking. Even more so if you adjust for relative population size: if S. Korea had handled things as “well” as Sweden we’d have had ~30,100-odd deaths and ~690,000 cases.