Bay Briefing: What a Bay Area ICU in a hard-hit area looks like during the surge FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse Waymond Jones (left), respiratory therapist Laura Sandoval and nurse Larry Ngiraswei adjust tubes on a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Regional Medical Center of San Jose.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, Dec. 14, and California’s teachers push to be vaccinated early. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. ‘Worst we’ve ever seen’ The coronavirus surge is very real at Regional Medical Center in East San Jose in one of the Bay Area’s hardest-hit communities.