The writing is wrong because it anthromophophizes the virus.
Such sloppy writing leads people to think evolution is something that living things deliberately do to better survive. It also leads people to think that they may as well ignore the isolation and masking because the virus is going to adapt itself anyway, not realizing that reducing the spread also reduces the number of mutations and therefor the likelihood of mutations that can survive any given vaccine.
The walking stick didn't transform itself by recognizing it could hide better if it looked like a twig; those mutations which looked more like a twig were better able to capture prey and therefore thrived while others did not. Over time, only the most twig-like remained.
Three critical factors -- reproduction, time, and random mutation -- result in evolving species. We are the only species now capable of adding deliberation as a factor.