what was the purpose of the hospital arc thenTo those saying Beth's death was meaningless. Yes, it was, but like real life, death is meaningless all the time. We want it to mean something but more often than not it is just a matter of wrong place wrong time.
There have been meaningful and meaningless deaths on the show. I imagine in a real life zombie apocalypse scenario meaningless death would be everywhere.
That said I'm still not happy about her death.
literally no one who experienced that ordeal survived or continued to participate in the show - sans carol of course
but she wasn't conscious so she doesn't count