Author: Craig Harris, Bailey Schulz and Katie Wedell, USA TODAY

Utah’s Nomi Health, CEO and others make campaign contributions to Democrats in blue Hawaii as company expands its business on the islands.

What’s Nomi Health? USA TODAY spent months investigating the Utah startup that has rapidly expanded thanks to COVID-19 and political connections.

After Republican governors gave Utah firms no-bid COVID-19 testing contracts, two businesses gave $1 million to GOP campaigns to help politicians.

Profiting from COVID 😷

Following a tip, we reviewed over 30K documents and conducted interviews to verify and expand on information from Salt Lake Tribune chair Paul Huntsman