For what its worth, VICP is funded by an excise tax on each vaccine dose. Compensation is also "no fault", and no party is presumed liable.
In the specific case of the COVID-19 vaccines, they are explicitly NOT covered by VICP, but rather the CICP.
[Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) | Official web site of the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration](https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp)