hospital. you take something vaccination clinics across the country, we need to protect our students. at the end of the day, we want all of our students in the classroom, but we want to do it safely. the brookings institution which has surveyed parents for time since the pandemic. parental concerns about their children s well-being has began to ease during the summer. began to ease when 93% of students were in person school. brookings wrote the following quoting here, this evidence suggests that the relevant normalcy of in-person learning this year may be driving reduce parental concerns. as you know, closures and school curricula became hot button topics. former education secretary bill bennett said this in an interview with fox this week. watch. the american people are saying we are not taking this anymore.
surging. so they want to limit indoor group activities, keep kids 2 and older masked in public and at school. and rapid testing. kids 5 and older are eligible for vaccination. cdc data shows as of last week, 23% of children 5 to 11 and 62% of kids 12 to 17 have received at least one dose, compared to 86% of adults. so i appeal to parents that if your child is 5 and older, get that child vaccinated. reporter: some schools are starting january with virtual learning, though the cdc wants districts to keep classes open. the u.s. education department put out a guide for school, advising them to host vaccination clinics and test students after an exposure rather than quarantining an entire class. it s scary that he is going back to school. reporter: a covid long hauler
selling abrasions around the country and the world. cases in the u.s. are on the rise in different cities, made different decisions about new year s events. new york city, we just mentioned, limited the times square crowd to a fraction of the usual number, boston moved everything outdoors. they also added walk-up vaccination clinics, and also celebrations in miami and vegas. went ahead largely as planned with no capacity limits. nbc news correspondent anne thompson is live in times square, and ali aruzi is live in london. anne, good morning, happy new year. much smaller crowd in times square than usual. did everything go smoothly? it did, lindsey, and happy new year to you too, it was a festive fight in times square but certainly quieter than usual. as you mentioned only 15,000 people were allowed to come to times square, the cross roads of the world, to party, and to do that they had to show proof of vaccination and wear a mask, but that didn t stop those who