New York state is teetering on the edge of meeting its own standards for the tri-state quarantine list, reporting 9.99 new cases per 100,000 people over a seven-day rolling period as of Thursday. The threshold is 10, which the neighboring states of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey have already topped. The latter likely saw that metric climb even higher Friday, as Gov. Phil Murphy announced more than 2,000 new COVID cases for the first time since May 6. In New York, the metric is driven by high numbers in the Southern Tier (25.07 per 100,000) and Mid-Hudson (12.74 per 100,000) regions. Long Island's rate of new cases per 100,000 residents (9.39) over the last week is lower than the statewide average and New York City's is even lower (9.12), even as its mayor warned that he was concerned about the recent growth of the city's rolling positivity rate.