COVID-19, but it might have proven fatal for a virus-stricken family in Texas — if not for the one healthy daughter in the household.Bianca Rivera, 17, is being hailed for her sharp (or at least functional) sense of smell, after she detected smoke in a home where everyone else’s senses had been dulled by the coronavirus.
Loss of smell or taste is one of the most common symptoms of the disease. Woman, 70, accused of poisoning husband’s coffee on video The fire broke out around 2 a.m.
on Jan. 15 at the family’s home in Waco, Texas, local station KWTX reports. Rivera smelled the smoke and rushed around the house to wake her three family members.“I started smelling burnt plastic and that’s when I got more alert and ran outside of my room and.