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Washington (CNN)The US aviation industry and the Trump administration are in a pitched battle over the response to the coronavirus pandemic, three sources familiar with recent calls between officials from several government agencies and US airlines have told CNN.

In a series of contentious conversations, agency officials and aviation executives have clashed over the administration's demand that airlines collect new kinds of data from passengers to help officials track potential virus carriers.

Airlines say they can't meet that demand right away -- a claim some administration officials say they don't believe, according to several sources who tell CNN the calls have deteriorated so badly that agency officials have issued threats, spat expletives and accused airline executives of lying. It is an "epic battle," said one source familiar with the talks.

Broadway's answer to coronavirus:

“We urge everyone to stop shaking hands immediately,” said Dr. Ruben Spurkle, a spokesperson for the CDC. “Instead, we suggest greeting people in a manner both more sanitary and, frankly, more fabulous: jazz hands. If we have any hope of saving the world from this crippling disease, by God, it is with sassy, interpretive movement.”

It was the Broadway community that initiated this practice after the first case of coronavirus hit New York City earlier this week. Performers and crew members need to be in peak health in order to perform eight shows per week, so taking a risk on a handshakes was out of the question. One performer has already been credited with discovering the safe new greeting.

“I was meeting another actress for the first time yesterday,” said Kitty McKinnon, currently an understudy for the Elephant’s Trunk in Moulin Rouge!. “I was so scared to shake hands because of germs. This other actress put her hand out for a shake, and all of a sudden, the Fosse just came out. Then she joined in, and before I knew it, we were doing the whole ‘Hot Honey Rag’ down the Avenue of the Americas! I was exhausted and she actually got hit by a taxi, but at least we didn’t contract anything.”