Asian American health workers fight virus and racist attacks by Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press Posted May 7, 2021 1:17 am EDT Last Updated May 7, 2021 at 1:27 am EDT NEW YORK — Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn’t avoid exposure to the anti-Asian bigotry that pulsed to the surface after the pathogen was first identified in China. Psychiatry patients have called her by a racist slur for the disease, she said. A bystander spat at the Thai-born student to “go back to China” as she left a New York City hospital where she’s training.