By TheStreet What Was the COVID-19 Recession?According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the official arbiter ofrecession, a sharp economic downturn coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It officially categorized the COVID-19 recession as a two-month contraction between February and April of 2020, after which stay-at-home orders and lockdown restrictions were lifted in many parts of the world. Astock market crash had ushered in the Covid-19 recession—not just one, in fact, but several: Over the span of three days in March 2020, theNew York Stock Exchange implemen…