Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati is looking forward to next year.
He thinks 2021 will be a huge contrast to 2020, especially once a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
"We learned a lot and we know about things we never heard of before like wearing masks, distancing, sanitizing, social distancing, pivoting and all of these new words in our vernacular. That's been keeping our heads above water and it's going to be the vaccine that's going to get us to shore."
Diodati doesn't think it will take long for things to get back to normal.
"People want to get back to life the way it used to be. Go see a movie, go out for dinner, go over the river, travel to Florida and do whatever they're dying to do. I think people are going to run to go get this vaccine and we're going to eradicate this thing before we know it."
He says it's very impressive that Pfizer and Moderna have produced vaccines that are 90 percent effective, adding the flu shot is only about 50 percent effective.
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