Most fully-vaccinated Americans can finally stop wearing their masks almost anywhere - indoors or outdoors, the CDC announced on Thursday. The new guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but could ease restrictions for reopening workplaces and schools. It will also no longer recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks outdoors in crowds. CDC's announcement comes as the agency and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people - people who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose - in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot. In a seemingly prescient moment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed her mask in public for the first time in months on Thursday during her weekly Capitol Hill press conference. She took off her face covering once she got to the podium, and cited new House rules that require all members to wear masks on the floor - unless they are speaking. The CDC's expected easing of guidance also comes two weeks after the agency recommended that fully vaccinated people continue to wear masks indoors in all settings and outdoors in large crowds. In that update, the CDC also exaggerated the risk of Covid transmission outdoors as accounting for less than 10 percent of cases when the figure is likely less than one percent, experts say. That's sown distrust and confusion, fueling claims that the CDC has been keeping mask guidelines in places longer than it needs to. Things came to a head earlier this week, as Republican lawmakers grilled CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky over masking guidelines, claiming that the agency had let them drag on too long. To-date, more than 117 million fully vaccinated Americans are still advised to wear their masks anytime they are inside (besides at home) and in crowded places outdoors.