The Coronavirus won't cause it, the panicked and hysterical reaction to it...
The coronavirus panic will make a whole lot of people poorer. But it can’t inflict the sort of damage that creates a Great Depression. The exploding mortgage bubble of 2008 had potential to bring down the banking system and we dodged a bullet there.
The covid panic and closing of so many businesses will create a huge drop in “demand”. The government’s reaction will be a massive “demand stimulus”- sending a check to everybody and granting tax breaks to small businesses. The idea being that it will jump start a damaged economy.