Good News: Backyard Ice Skating, Drug Companies Unite, and an Unlikely Hero Catches a Falling Baby

Here are a few more good news stories making the rounds . . .

1.  To get vaccines out faster, the biggest drug company in the world is teaming up with one of its biggest competitors.  Merck pharmaceuticals is helping manufacture the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine.  They were planning to crank out 100 million doses by the end of June.  Now they think they can do it by the end of May.

2.  A woman in Detroit created a backyard ice rink for neighborhood kids to skate and play hockey on.  Her local fire department heard about it and showed up with a water truck to help her make enough ice.

3.  A retired Marine in North Carolina named Christi Davis hit the lottery for half-a-million bucks last month.  And she’s planning to use a big chunk of that money to help people in her community who’ve been hit hard by the pandemic.

4.  A two-year-old kid got out onto a 12th-floor balcony in Vietnam on Sunday and fell about 150 feet.  But luckily, a 31-year-old delivery driver saw what was going on . . . scaled a wall to get right under the balcony . . . and CAUGHT her.  She ended up with a dislocated hip, but should be okay.  Meanwhile, the delivery driver sprained muscles in both of his arms.  (Here’s the footage.)