Quite the opposite is true actually. There was a huge risk of deflation in this current economic crisis because credit/currency was being taken out wholesale from the economy raising the value of the dollar earlier this year. Deflation is a much more severe problem to any recession than inflation would be.
Right now the U.S. is printing so much money for the exact purposes of creating inflation. The market is so illiquid that it's absorbing the new supply. Down the road if money issuances continue at this rate inflation may be a problem. However, there are specific levers the treasury that pull to reign in inflation. There is little to nothing you can do about deflation once it has started. The Fed was wise to print and lend so much money when it did. A deflationary spiral would have been catastrophic.
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