Pete Meitzner

Sedgwick County is ready to vaccinate more people for the COVID-19 virus, says County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner. He tells KNSS News the county staff is ready and the process is ready, all we need now is vaccine. Communities around the country are vaccinating people for COVID-19 in large public...

Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner presented the Chairman's award for 2020.

Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News essential workers will soon be lining up for the COVID-19 vaccine. He says that includes health workers, the ones who come in contact with the public. Meitzner says those workers will be "treated right away". Meitzner's Christmas...

Health care workers are being vaccinated for COVID-19 across the country. KNSS News asked Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner ... who has recovered from a bout with the virus ... if he will get vaccinated. He says he will, when the vaccine is available. He says after health care workers...

Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner has been battling COVID 19. Meitzner tells KNSS News he has now tested negative, and he's "clean". Meitzner says members of his immediate family have also tested negative. Meitzner says his symptoms included a dry cough, shorten of breath, headaches,...

Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News the coronavirus pandemic has become personal ... he has tested positive for COVID 19. He is being treated at home. Meitzner's wife and daughter tested negative after a small family gathering for Thanksgiving. Pete Meitzner commented...

At least three drug companies have shown great promise for a COVID-19 vaccine ... possibly being approved within weeks. Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News the county is planning on who is first to receive the vaccine. As Thanksgiving Day approaches, many Americans are...

More than 25 percent of those tested for COVID 19 are coming back positive in Sedgwick County ... and Wichita hospitals are running near capacity because of the pandemic. Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News COVID patients from 18 counties surrounding Sedgwick County are...

Intensive care units in Wichita hospitals caring for COVID 19 patients are running near capacity. Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News "hospitalizations continue to go up". He says the patients are not coming from senior care homes, but from groups, gatherings, and...

The battle against the pandemic goes on. Sedgwick County Commission Chair Pete Meitzner tells KNSS News the ages of those tested positive in the county have changed ... with fewer in the fifty-plus age group. He says they're seeing a few in the thirties and forties, and a few grade school kids, but...