By Jim Wyss From Bloomberg News Haiti, which has one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the Western Hemisphere, will be returning thousands of unused doses donated by the U.S. to keep them from expiring. The COVAX Facility, which provides free and subsidized vaccines to the poorest nations, confirmed in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the doses returned by Haiti will be redeployed elsewhere to “minimize any potential wastage.” “Hundreds of thousands” of doses expiring in November will be sent to COVAX with the understanding that Haiti will receive a new batch in the future, Le Nouvelliste newspaper reported, citing health ministry officials. The exact number of vaccines being sent back was not confirmed by the government or the COVAX Facility. The U.S. donated 500,000 doses of the Moderna Inc. vaccine to Haiti in July through COVAX—an abbreviation for COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access. According to Haiti’s health ministry, …