WARRENSBURG — As the COVID-19 pandemic enters yet another calendar year, the Western Missouri Medical Center staff continue to care for patients despite seemingly endless struggles. WMMC CEO Darinda Dick spoke with the Star-Journal on Friday, Jan. 28 and said during the past week, 45 different patients had been admitted with COVID, a new high for WMMC. She said the last record-high was in November 2020, with 28 COVID patients in one week. “We have been very busy and saturated with COVID patients,” she said. “It is starting to slow down a little bit over the last five or six...