"Why does Medeires still seem possessed after the demon has been passed to Angela? As in: [...] she still walks around with the hammer trying to whack people?"
There is 1) a possession by the demon, and also 2) infection/zombification. They are two different, related, but still separate phenomena. One person might host the demon, but all these other people can and do get infected/zombified, and apparently they stay that way.
The demon-possessed person is in communication with, and possibly in control of, all these other demon-zombies. This allows the demon to see and speak through any of them at will. So the demon's demonic influence, aka the infection, is still present even when the demon's physical slug form is not. Therefore, the Madeiros girl is probably still very much infected even though no longer possessed.
"I assume that the demon was the thing that kept her alive despite the malnutrition. When the demon left why didn't the effects of that take over?"
Nutrition is a matter of nutrients being ingested and then circulated throughout the body by a working heart and circulatory system. It likely doesn't really have much bearing on a dead/undead entity. If the Madeiros girl really is infected/zombified, then she should be able to keep going and going, like some sort of supernatural Energizer bunny...
On a side note, I never quite got the idea why a head shot is supposed to do much to a zombie either. If a zombie doesn't need a heart and circulatory system, then why does it need a brain and nervous system either? It seems like if you were to low its head off, then its decapitated body should still keep coming after you.
Perhaps the brain is vital not only for housing human intellectual and emotional thought, but also for holding one's spirit/soul and also for hosting a demon? Without an intact brain, the demon aspect of a zombie can no longer control the human body host?
That doesn't explain why amputated zombie limbs continue to squirm in other films though...
Oh well!
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