Robert Gehrke: Utah’s slow coronavirus reaction should be a cautionary example to other states

Utah leaders love to tout the state as a model for the nation, but as coronavirus cases climb, we’re more of a cautionary tale.It took two months of skyrocketing spread of COVID-19, more than 83,000 new cases, nearly 250 deaths, before Gov. Gary Herbert announced — in dramatic fashion via a Amber Alert-type text blast Sunday night — that he would impose new safeguards.Doctors and nurses toiling in intensive care units stretched to the breaking point and facing a looming crush o