NEW DELHI—Nausana is a village in India’s most populated state, Uttar Pradesh. Over 60 miles from India’s capital city, New Delhi, it had only one case of coronavirus during the country’s second wave of the pandemic, of a driver for a judge of the Delhi High Court who recovered in quarantine. All its 1700 voters have already been tested and its citizens started to be vaccinated on May 28. The vaccination did not take place in its sub-health care center, a health unit in India that is the most peripheral and the first contact between any community and its primary health care facility, but instead on “charpaies” (traditional light bed with rope netting) in a villager’s home. India’s rural health care system consists of a three-tiered system. The most basic, the sub-center, covers an average of over 5000 people. Six sub-centers refer patients to a Primary Health Center (PHC), which …