Wiesel and Keeling’s paper notes that because the VICP was created in the late Nineteen Eighties for childhood vaccine harm, the demographic has shifted, with greater than 50% of claims now involving adults. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, it takes a median of 2-3 years from the time of submitting a petition to the time of payout. The Vaccine Court is faster than civil court docket system, based on statistics from the New England Journal of Medicine, which says that the average health-care injury civil case takes 5 years to resolve. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out approximately $3.9 billion to individuals who filed claims, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.