'TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL' – a comic book about of how Trump ignored science, planning, and his own team when the virus struck. And how 194,000 Americans paid the ultimate price

This story draws on real, factual reporting from sources that include the following articles, books, and original documents.

• Reporter: White House Knew Of Coronavirus' 'Major Threat,' But Response Fell Short, Terry Gross interview with Dan Diamond, NPR
• The Red Dawn emails, The New York Times [PDF]
• The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his lifeby Ed Pilkington and Tom McCarthy, The Guardian
• Before Trump's inauguration, a warning: 'The worst influenza pandemic since 1918', Nahal Toosi, Daniel Lippman and Dan Diamond, POLITICO
• What If Trump Hadn't Ignored Months Of Pandemic Warnings? Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair
• 'Nothing to worry about' and 'it's being contained': How Trump officials downplayed the coronavirus by Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Nathan McDermott, CNN
• He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times
• Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses by Emily Baumgaertner and James Rainey, The Los Angeles Times
• On Coronavirus, National Security Threats, O'Brien Picks His Spots by Michael C. Bender and Gordon Lubold, The Wall Street Journal
• America Needed Coronavirus Tests. The Government Failed. by Christopher Weaver, Betsy McKay and Brianna Abbott, The Wall Street Journal
• A Complete List of Trump's Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus He could have taken action. He didn't. By David Leonhardt, The New York Times
• Before Virus Outbreak, A Cascade Of Warnings Went Unheeded By David E. Sanger, Eric Lipton, Eileen Sullivan and Michael Crowley, The New York Times
• Why Dr. Anthony Fauci Runs By Ben Cohen and Louise Radnofsky, The Wall Street Journal
• Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources, by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek ABC News
• 'I still like playing it down': Trump told a veteran journalist he 'always' downplayed the threat of COVID-19 to avoid causing 'panic' John Haltiwanger and Jake Lahut, Business Insider
• 25 times Trump downplayed COVID-19 publicly after telling Bob Woodward on tape it was 'more deadly than strenuous flus' by John Haltiwanger, Business Insider