Former Miss Virginia declared dead from COVID-19 reportedly comes ‘back to life’
A former Miss Virginia who was declared dead from COVID-19 came back to life, reports say.
Barbara Guthrie Lay, who was Miss Virginia 1958, had been taken to a hospital in Georgia by her husband Dec. 20 because she developed trouble breathing after contracting the coronavirus, local ABC-TV affiliate WSET said.
Lay, 82, who lives in Roswell, Ga., with her husband, Tony Lay, 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 Martinsville Bulletin of Virginia said.
The hospital first called Barbara’s son, Thom Kelley, a doctor, with the heartbreaking news, and he contacted Tony, the Bulletin said.
Tony then began tearfully reaching out to Barbara’s other relatives to tell them she had passed, WSET said — till Kelley received another phone call from the hospital minutes later saying his mother now had a pulse again, added the Bulletin.
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