Influence of Community and Culture in the Ethical Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic Situation: Deliberative Democracy Study

Monica Schoch-Spana   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Emily K Brunson   ^{2 *} , MPH, PhD ;   Howard Gwon   ^{3 *} , MSc ;   Alan Regenberg   ^{4 *} , MBE ;   Eric S Toner   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Elizabeth L Daugherty-Biddison   ^{5 *} , MD

¹ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

² Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States

³ Department of Environmental Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁵ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

*all authors contributed equally