NEW DELHI—Nausana is a village in India’s most populated state, Uttar Pradesh. Over 60 miles from India’s capital of New Delhi, it had only one case of coronavirus during the country’s second wave of the pandemic: a driver for a judge of the Delhi High Court who recovered while in quarantine. All 1,700 of its voters have already been tested and vaccinations of its citizens began on May 28. The vaccination didn’t 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, caters to an average of over 5,000 people. Six sub-centers refer patients to a Primary Health Center (PHC), a …