MSDH working hard to include minority communities during COVID-19 pandemic MSDH working hard to include minority communities during COVID-19 pandemic By Brandy McGill | December 20, 2020 at 7:38 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 7:43 AM BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - With efforts to include minority communities during the pandemic, Mississippi State Department of Health set up a free COVID-19 testing center at the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple on Sunday. “It was really important for us to find and try to create more access to our minority community across the state,” said Director of Health Equity, Chigozie Udemgba. “Especially here on the Coast- to make sure they have access to testing.”