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By Kim Lyons Nov 2, 2020, 1:30pm EST Share this story • Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) • Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) • SHAREAll sharing options Dr. Anthony Fauci says a lot with his facial expressions. Photo by Al Drago / Pool / Getty Images Anthony Fauci is probably one of the most recognizable faces of the coronavirus pandemic in the US. So when a public health expert needed a way to measure how her students were coping with all of the stresses of 2020, she created a chart to gauge their "level of Fauci." "We all kind of need something that's positive, that makes sense to us," Karen Sautter Errichetti, an assistant professor in public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, said. She'd noticed that her community of public health and medical professionals was feeling pretty depressed. So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort. Nothing caught on quite like the Fauci meter, which she introduced to her students back in September. The hardest photo to find was one of Fauci full-on smiling, she notes. PRESS: Steve Bannon Loses Lawyer After Suggesting Beheading of Fauci a WORRTEE STREET ENTRANCE Global USA Mr. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump, said the heads of the F.B.I. director and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be put on pikes, leading Twitter to ban one of his accounts.