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How the startup behind Utah’s defunct coronavirus app tried to tap a Hollywood connection

Star Ashton Kutcher, booster of public-private TestUtah initiative, invested in the company that collected $6.1 million for the state’s criticized contact-tracing app.

(Kristin Murphy | Pool photo) A poster displaying how the Healthy Together app was expected to use location tracking for COVID-19 contact tracing is on display stood in the foreground as then-Gov. Gary Herbert spoke during a COVID-19 news briefing at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Emails obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune show how Twenty, the app's creator, tried to tap investor Ashton Kutcher for help in getting the app listed in Apple's App Store.