Your personal data is also just numbers. But it does seem weird. These numbers are already only authoritatively available from the government health services, r

Your personal data is also just numbers. But it does seem weird. These numbers are already only authoritatively available from the government health services, right? The New York Times doesn't own the data either, if it's public it's public, they're providing a convenience. It's actually pretty analagous to news: they don't own the fact that an event happened, but they own their wording and they provide a service in getting that wording to you. edit: Yeah, "Over months, our journalists have recorded the details on newly confirmed cases as reported by state and local officials." It's all government, just aggregated by NYT instead of the federal government.