Business (Details) treatmentCourse in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022 USD ($) treatmentCourse	Sep. 30, 2022 category segment businessLine product productCandidate
Asset Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of categories of public health threats \| category		5
Number of revenue generating products \| product		13
Number of product candidates \| productCandidate		1
Number of business lines \| businessLine		3
Number of operating segments \| segment		2
Chimerix Asset Acquisition
Asset Acquisition [Line Items]
Payments to acquire productive assets	$ 238.0
Asset acquisition, domestic royalty percentage	20.00%
Asset acquisition, treatment volume threshold \| treatmentCourse	1.7
Asset acquisition, international royalty percentage	15.00%
Chimerix Asset Acquisition \| Milestone Payments
Asset Acquisition [Line Items]
Asset acquisition, consideration transferred, contingent consideration	$ 124.0
Chimerix Asset Acquisition \| Regulatory Milestones
Asset Acquisition [Line Items]
Asset acquisition, consideration transferred, contingent consideration	$ 12.5

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Asset Acquisition, International Gross Profit Royalty Percentage

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Asset Acquisition, Treatment Volume Threshold

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Number Of Business Lines

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Amount of contingent consideration recognized as part of consideration transferred in asset acquisition.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The cash outflow for purchases of and capital improvements on property, plant and equipment (capital expenditures), software, and other intangible assets.

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