A former Miss Virginia who was declared dead from COVID-19 came back to life. Barbara Guthrie Lay, who was Miss Virginia in 1958, had been taken to a hospital in Georgia by her husband on December 20th because she developed trouble breathing after contracting the coronavirus. Mrs. Lay, now 82 and who lives in Roswell, Georgia, with her husband Tony, was pronounced dead by the hospital two days later, on Christmas Eve. Tony hadn't been allowed in her room in the ICU and wasn't at the Roswell hospital at the time. The hospital first called Barbara's son, Thom Kelley, a doctor, with the heartbreaking news, and he contacted Tony. Tony then began tearfully reaching out to Barbara's other relatives to tell them she had passed, until Thom received another phone call from the hospital minutes later saying his mother now had a pulse again. Thom said, "As a physician, I will say without hesitation there is only one word for what has happened over the past week - a miracle." Barbara - who has since been moved out of the ICU and into a regular hospital room - has yet to learn of her near-death experience.
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