6 months after Biden touted 'independence' from COVID-19, cases set records

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich discusses the Biden administration's failure to deliver at-home COVID tests on'Special Report.' It's been six months since President Biden said the U.S. was close to declaring "independence from COVID-19," and yet the pandemic still shows no signs of slowing after the country set a global record for the number of cases Monday due to the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant. The U.S. reported more than 1 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, setting a global record and almost doubling the previous record set last week. Hospitalizations have also skyrocketed across the country, but deaths have held relatively steady in recent weeks. President Biden listens during a virtual meeting about reducing the costs of meat through increased competition in the meat processing industry in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Jan. 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) Biden gave a speech Tuesday maintaining his position that "this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated," even though breakthrough cases of COVID-19 among people who are fully vaccinated continue to rise across the country as new variants emerge.